Nick Land in Meltdown: “Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.”, “Capital only retains anthropological characteristics as a symptom of underdevelopment; reformatting primate behaviour as inertia to be dissipated in self-reinforcing artificiality. Man is something for it to overcome: a problem, drag.”
Historical materialism views the organization of society throughout history as being the argmax of production (or maybe argmax the development of production or productive power or something), and after AGI, humans will not be part of the argmax of production for long.
conversely, you can make something more likely to be preserved by figuring out how to make it instrumental to more valued/productive/competitive things/processes — each such process then provides a reason to keep the thing around, and provides a constraint on any replacement to the thing. “instrumentalizing the terminal”, ie protecting good things this way, is a sort of dual to subgoal stomp. i think protection by instrumentality is the main way one gets conserved structures in biological evolution
some more variations on this theme:
Nick Land in Meltdown: “Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.”, “Capital only retains anthropological characteristics as a symptom of underdevelopment; reformatting primate behaviour as inertia to be dissipated in self-reinforcing artificiality. Man is something for it to overcome: a problem, drag.”
Historical materialism views the organization of society throughout history as being the argmax of production (or maybe argmax the development of production or productive power or something), and after AGI, humans will not be part of the argmax of production for long.
“when you make something less useful (eg by introducing other things that can do its “jobs/functions” better), you make it less likely to stick around”, “what is no longer good for anything tends to get discarded” [1]
“messy futures are bad for humans” (in the limit: “a uniformly random configuration of atoms doesn’t have anything like humans in it”)
conversely, you can make something more likely to be preserved by figuring out how to make it instrumental to more valued/productive/competitive things/processes — each such process then provides a reason to keep the thing around, and provides a constraint on any replacement to the thing. “instrumentalizing the terminal”, ie protecting good things this way, is a sort of dual to subgoal stomp. i think protection by instrumentality is the main way one gets conserved structures in biological evolution