On a certain kind of fundamental mistrust towards Nature. 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/04/deep-atheism-and-ai-risk

This is the second essay in my series “Otherness and control in the age of AGI. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi