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Loving a world you don’t trust — LessWrong

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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 mistrust towards Nature, and towards bare intelligence) can propel itself towards an ever-more yang-y, controlling relationship to Otherness, and to the universe as a

x Loving a world you don’t trust — LessWrong Otherness and control in the age of AGI Ethics & Morality World Optimization AI Curated 149 Loving a world you don’t trust by Joe Carlsmith 18th Jun 2024 39 min read 13 149 (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 h

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