Well, as a women with at least 4 men after her genetic material, who is very circumspect about the wisdom of child-rearing, I find this discussion somewhat interesting… People consciously want to perpetuate themselves. It’s not just sex without contraception = babies + oxytocin + progesterone = child loving. People love children that do not yet exist. People love the written words they leave behind on the page. People love creation… their own… their immortality. With enough power, could the superintelligence reach back through the relics and memories of the past and recreate a human through his descendants? Interesting question...
Eliezer: “But you can make arguments for the importance of beauty and altruism from first principles—that our aesthetic senses lead us to create new complexity, instead of repeating the same things over and over; and that altruism is important because it takes us outside ourselves, gives our life a higher meaning than sheer brute selfishness.”
Oh. Just lovely.
“Long ago, and far away, ever so long ago.”
Wow.
Temple: “All these bad aspects of love are commonly ignored and disregarded, rather than seen as urgent problems that ought to be, and can be, solved. If love is a great thing we ought to be able to get it to stop hurting people so much and so often. That people don’t have a problem-solving attitude towards love, and instead close their eyes to its flaws, is a sign that points to people having biased views on love not rational views.”
Have you ever known love? I would not want to live in a reality without it. Yes. It’s just that good.
This post gives me a lot more hope about fAI.
Yes- I know my name is now going to appear 4 times in the 10 most recent comments- I acidently posted my first comment twice...
Well, as a women with at least 4 men after her genetic material, who is very circumspect about the wisdom of child-rearing, I find this discussion somewhat interesting… People consciously want to perpetuate themselves. It’s not just sex without contraception = babies + oxytocin + progesterone = child loving. People love children that do not yet exist. People love the written words they leave behind on the page. People love creation… their own… their immortality. With enough power, could the superintelligence reach back through the relics and memories of the past and recreate a human through his descendants? Interesting question...
Eliezer: “But you can make arguments for the importance of beauty and altruism from first principles—that our aesthetic senses lead us to create new complexity, instead of repeating the same things over and over; and that altruism is important because it takes us outside ourselves, gives our life a higher meaning than sheer brute selfishness.”
Oh. Just lovely.
“Long ago, and far away, ever so long ago.”
Wow.
Temple: “All these bad aspects of love are commonly ignored and disregarded, rather than seen as urgent problems that ought to be, and can be, solved. If love is a great thing we ought to be able to get it to stop hurting people so much and so often. That people don’t have a problem-solving attitude towards love, and instead close their eyes to its flaws, is a sign that points to people having biased views on love not rational views.”
Have you ever known love? I would not want to live in a reality without it. Yes. It’s just that good.
This post gives me a lot more hope about fAI.
Yes- I know my name is now going to appear 4 times in the 10 most recent comments- I acidently posted my first comment twice...