I think both cult-like/high control stuff and the models of AI (& other) risks at play are relevant if we want to understanding what’s going on.
I’m not hopeful about pointing to the lack of instrumentality to their supposed goals in the way the org is now as a means to making them update because it/Soryu seems completely oblivious to this lack of instrumentality.
The only lever we have here seems to be decreasing the inflow of more people and somehow getting to people already there, so that they are better-positioned to leave.
If this succeeds, it probably ends with Soryu gritting his teeth and sticking to his guns, concluding that the world is even worse than he thought, selling MAPLE, and departing to a hermit cabin (maybe with a few last followers) to telepathically talk to cyborgregores.
(This may sound sarcastic but I do think this is the best plausible outcome.)
I think both cult-like/high control stuff and the models of AI (& other) risks at play are relevant if we want to understanding what’s going on.
I’m not hopeful about pointing to the lack of instrumentality to their supposed goals in the way the org is now as a means to making them update because it/Soryu seems completely oblivious to this lack of instrumentality.
The only lever we have here seems to be decreasing the inflow of more people and somehow getting to people already there, so that they are better-positioned to leave.
If this succeeds, it probably ends with Soryu gritting his teeth and sticking to his guns, concluding that the world is even worse than he thought, selling MAPLE, and departing to a hermit cabin (maybe with a few last followers) to telepathically talk to cyborgregores.
(This may sound sarcastic but I do think this is the best plausible outcome.)