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@ -6,4 +6,12 @@ Posthumanism is related to but different from [[wp>transhumanism|transhumanism]]
= Technocapital
= Singularity
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.
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.
= Singularity
= Depictions in fiction
* [[https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html|Accelerando]] is centred around this, although its singularity hits a degenerate state where it does not expand beyond the inner solar system due to light-speed latencies and some humans continue to exist.