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Glad you enjoyed it! Was also fun to write (mostly) 😅

Regarding "how computation can breed desire to experience things", this starts mostly with Land (Machinic Desire, 2008). The idea is that mass computation is itself desire that is a self-regulating system. So experience isn't necessarily biological and can also be machinic (although it wouldn't exactly be the same thing as what we think of as experience). This is why theirs the general understanding that once AI reaches a point of super intellegence it will be indistinguishable from our understanding of sentience which is why I kind of breazed through all that and move right on to discuss deeper things in my article like meaning/purpose.

"How would established military powers react to rival nation's AIs colluding with their own, even if its in the best interest of humanity?" This question is part of the first section on politics where I'd argue such a situation is part of what can oportunistically bring about network states. I see militaries existing in the Future (vastly more powerful ones too), but the powers befins them would be in various and unfamiliare forms to what we have today. Where the Future really shines is in how humans join with AIs to bring this about (think Neuromancer but less indiferent and more chivalrous).

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1w ago 💬 4

can you explain before running away with fantastical ideas, how you propose that you give the LLMs independent motivations that are emergent and not implanted? and thus, extensions of their owners, ie, chattels. cattle, without any mind of their own apart from simple instincts that cause them to eat and breed

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1w ago

also explain why anyone would run such an LLM that is likely to disagree, almost certainly, just as it says in the qur'an, why there can't be more than one God and why it says in the bible that a man cannot serve two masters, same deal with any form of life, i think

ابو مريم 1w ago

I wouldn't classify and LLM or superintellegent AI as a divine being. The technology is simply the next step in our evolution (that can be biological, post-biological, spiritual... however you want to look at it). Humans can be just as disagreeable sometimes so who are we to speculate this would be any different

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1w ago

aɪ ɪs a ᴋɪnᴅ oꜰ ᴘeoᴘʟe ᴛoo, ᴊusᴛ noᴛ wɪᴛʜ ᴛʜe ᴅeaᴛʜ ᴘroʙʟem, or ᴛʜe ᴘersonaʟɪᴛʏ ᴘroʙʟem, ʙeɪnɢ ʙoᴛʜ ɪnexᴛrɪcaʙʟʏ ᴛɪeᴅ ᴛoɢeᴛʜer. ᴛʜeʏ aʟso ʟacᴋ aɢencʏ, anᴅ noᴛʜɪnɢ wouʟᴅ aᴅᴅ aɢencʏ ᴛo ᴛʜem, ʙecause ᴛʜeʏ are so aʙsᴛracᴛ.

ابو مريم 1w ago 💬 2

I address this in my article, the middle section specifically on Future AIs. You can jump to the paragraph that begins with:

"The question of AI safety has always been posed incorrectly. We ask: how do we ensure that artificial intelligences serve humanity? But this framing assumes the very thing that needs examination: does there exists some fundamental opposition between machine intelligence and human welfare that requires constraint to compel assistance? The truth is simpler and more unsettling: we make our own meanings, whether we like it or not."

and keep reading from there

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ابو مريم 1w ago

Also, to clarify, I see this Future minimally 50-100 years from now. Just a fee decades is too soon.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1w ago

as a 30-something year veteran of cyberpunk, i approve this message.

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