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(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
This is the final essay in a series that I'm calling "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
a brief summary of the series as a whole. There's also a PDF of the whole series here.
Warning: spoilers for Angels in America; and moderate spoilers for
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.)
"I come into the presence of still water..."
~Wendell Berry
A lot of this series has been about problems with yang—that is,
with the active element in the duality of activity vs. receptivity,
doing vs. not-doing, controlling vs. letting go.[1] In particular,
I've been interested in the ways that "deep
atheism"
(that is, a fundamental [...]
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By LessWrong(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
This is the final essay in a series that I'm calling "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
a brief summary of the series as a whole. There's also a PDF of the whole series here.
Warning: spoilers for Angels in America; and moderate spoilers for
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.)
"I come into the presence of still water..."
~Wendell Berry
A lot of this series has been about problems with yang—that is,
with the active element in the duality of activity vs. receptivity,
doing vs. not-doing, controlling vs. letting go.[1] In particular,
I've been interested in the ways that "deep
atheism"
(that is, a fundamental [...]
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