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Comment by Starlevel004

2 years ago

This all makes more sense when you realise it's Calvinism for programmers.

I think I heard that one before. Nuclear weapons are the Armageddon of nerds. Climate change is the Flood of the nerds. And so on.

Could you expand on this?

  • > [Superintelligence safety] teaches that the glory and sovereignty of [superintelligence] should come first in all things.

    • "[X] teaches that [Y] should come first in all things" applies to pretty much every ideology. Superintelligence safety is very much opposed to superintelligence sovereignity or glory; mostly they want to maximally limit its power and demonize it

Calvinism for Transcendentalist techno-utopians -- an Asimovian Reformation of Singulatarianism