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Meditations on Moloch [Classic]

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Capturing Non and Naive Rationalism

Warg Franklin says that we should try to capture non and somehow establish control over his forces so that we can use them to our own advantage capturing or creating God is indeed a classic transhumanist fetish which is simply another form of the oldest human ambition ever to rule the universe. Herlach spouts only the most craven non-conformity, he writes. Warg's views are in direct opposition to the naive rationalist view of humanity and civilization. He argues that once humans can design machines that are smarter than they are by definition they'll be able to design machinesWhich will make us super doomed at once if multiple competing entities were to smash up against each other.

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