I think it’s actually another control process—specifically, the process of controlling our identities. We have certain conceptions of ourselves (“I’m a good person” or “I’m successful” or “people love me”.) We then are constantly adjusting our lives and actions in order to maintain those identities—e.g. by selecting the goals and plans which are most consistent with them, and looking away from evidence that might falsify our identities.
Something about this feels weird to me… where do identities come from, then?
Avoid doomerism. Here, I mean “doomerism” not just in the sense of believing doom is inevitable (which is both a false and self-fulfilling belief), but more generally, thinking about AI risks in a quasi-religious way.
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
whoa thanks, I've had the same problem. How would you want to extend/improve this app?
All of this for the funding of 2-3 OpenAI employee salaries, wow
could you share the link to the bear fat brand?
I think it's accurate to say that people "choose their own self-fulfilling prophecies/identities"… but what makes some self-fulfilling prophecies preferable over others?