Remember Morpheus, in The Matrix movie, saying to Neo :
“Come on! Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!”
That seemed pretty efficient.
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Remember Morpheus, in The Matrix movie, saying to Neo :
“Come on! Stop trying to hit me, and hit me!”
That seemed pretty efficient.
When I was a kid, I had an uncle who claimed he was able to use telekinesis to move glasses. Strangely, when I asked him to show us his talent, it was never the good time (“I’m too tired”, “it’s too dangerous”...). From then I started questionning every weird claims/beliefs.
Later, as a teenager, I understood that the most important thing to do was, well… doing as much good as possible in the world (quite obvious indeed, but not for kids, and not for most adults—just try to ask them what is the most important thing they can think of).
I then thought that an effective way to do good was to remove pain, and I became a transhumanist. The achievement of an AGI became my strongest wish. But since I’m neither a cognitive scientist nor a programmer, I chose to raise the public awareness by making a movie.
I’ve been on this project for several months now, this will be a kind of Permutation City but with REAL fun (needless to say I totally agree with Eliezer’s latest posts about utopias). I don’t know how long it will take to do it, or even if it will even be made, but I think it has a huge potential.
Ok, I haven’t talked only about the origins, but, well, that’s my rationalist story.