From 6c975ead64f409d00dca608da534abf737ebc3fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:43:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98posthuman=5Ftechnocapital=5Fsin?= =?UTF-8?q?gularity=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco b/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco index 07b437f..7b024e7 100644 --- a/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco +++ b/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Posthumanism is related to but different from [[wp>transhumanism|transhumanism]] = Technocapital -According to surveys, this is considered an undesirable outcome by most [[people]], and is thus, naively, unlikely. However, via coordination problems ([[https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/|Moloch]]), results which no involved party would choose, which are negative for everyone, can occur if avoiding these outcomes requires everyone involved to pay a local cost for shared benefit. The "capital" part of "technocapital" refers to how the competitive and forward-looking structure of capitalist economic systems mediate these processes. +According to surveys, this is considered an undesirable outcome by most [[people]], and is thus, naively, unlikely. However, via coordination problems ([[https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/|Moloch]]), results which no involved party would choose, which are negative for everyone, can occur if avoiding these outcomes requires everyone involved to pay a local cost for shared benefit. The "capital" part of "technocapital" refers to how the competitive and forward-looking structures of capitalist economic systems mediate these processes. In this case, the general dynamic is that organizations which race towards more powerful AI and turn over more control to AI systems will do better than those which progress slower to focus on safety, leave humans in charge of decision-making where they are worse but safer, etc. As such, every individual organization is incentivized to race as much as possible even though this has negative outcomes.