Thanks, Alex. Any connections between this and CTMU? (I’m in part trying to evaluate CTMU by looking at whether it has useful implications for an area that I’m relatively familiar with.)
No direct connections that I’m aware of (besides non-classical logics being generally helpful for understanding the sorts of claims the CTMU makes).
I just want to strongly endorse this remark made toward the end of the post. In my experience, the standard fears and narratives around AI doom invoke “second species” intuitions that I think stand on much shakier ground than is commonly acknowledged. (Things can still get pretty bad without a “second species”, of course, but I think it’s worth thinking clearly about what those alternatives look like, as well as how to think about them in the first place.)