I started an AI X-Risk awareness twitter account. Introducing @GoodVibesNoAI. It's about collating reasons to believe civilization will collapse before it gets to spawn a rogue superintelligence that consumes all matter in the Laniakea supercluster. A good outcome, all things considered.
What do you think about it? Any particular people to follow? Considered also doing a weekly roundup of the articles I post on it and making a weekly newsletter with them.
I guess the Centre for Applied Eschatology would be right up your alley.
I'm curious, is
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an honest belief of yours, or satire? There are some arguments that unaligned AI systems might be morally valuable.
Civilization collapsing is blatantly better than rogue superintelligence, as it's plausibly a recoverable disaster, so yes, that is my honest belief. I don't consider non-organics to be moral entities, since I also believe they're not sentient. Yeah, I'm aware those views are contested, but then, what the hell isn't when it comes to philosophy. There are philosophers who argue for post-intentionalism, the view that our words, language and thoughts aren't actually about anything, for crying out loud.