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“On green” by Joe Carlsmith


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(Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.

This essay is part of 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 brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far.

Warning: spoilers for Yudkowsky's "The Sword of the

Good.")

"The Creation" by Lucas Cranach (image source

here)

The colors of the wheel

I've never been big on personality typologies. I've heard the

Myers-Briggs
explained many times, and it never sticks. Extraversion and
introversion, E or I, OK. But after that merciful vowel—man, the
opacity of those consonants, NTJ, SFP... And remind me the difference
between thinking and judging? Perceiving and sensing? N stands for
intuition?

Similarly, the [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) The colors of the wheel

(04:36) Gestures at green

(07:39) Green-blindness

(13:53) Why is green-blindness a problem?

(23:23) Green, according to non-Green

(28:11) Green and respect

(32:22) Blurring the self

(37:22) Respecting superintelligences

(46:04) Green and joy

(48:15) Love and otherness

(57:40) The future of yin

(01:01:43) Next up: Attunement

(01:02:36) Appendix: Taking guidance from God

The original text contained 47 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

March 21st, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gvNnE6Th594kfdB3z/on-green

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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