This is a tweet by Roko. Yes, that Roko.

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This "super-intelligence" stuff is frustrating, because it comes so very close to a real observation. It's seeing the forest without the trees. Information, encoded as narrative, exists within people. When that narrative - that story - exists in enough people, it produces a kind of emergent behavior. Stuff like cultures, nations, money, and religion. But it's not sentient, in the same way an anthill is (probably) not sentient. Oh, the ants definitely are -- in their own little ant way. And people are sentient. But the emergent behavior of the 'social organism'? It's complex, complicated, sure. But it isn't a mind. It exists between minds. Pratchett called it 'extelligence' - as opposed to intelligence.

    All that is to say, Roko invented Satan again. He can't grapple with the fact that living, breathing, rational, sentient people can reach different conclusions and think different thoughts than himself, so it has to be some sPoOkY "unfriendly superintelligence" that's actually the cause. 'Cus when it's Satan, you don't have to talk to other people. You don't have to do the uncomfortable work of having a discussion. No need to consider another's perspectives. You just call them satanic (or is it an 'anti-human egregore'...?) and wash your hands of all that unappealing work.

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Ohhhhhhhhh, I'm not trans, the globo homo supermind born out of Soviet bureaucracy and pain just wants me like this, a seemingly independent and nefarious entity hidden from our views but dependent on all minds including my own. Doesn't this just sound like avoiding hard real world issues with a paranoid delusion instead?