If we don't understand the term "late-stage capitalism", maybe we can understand it better if we phrase it as:
- The Singularity started in 1602 with the IPO of the Dutch East India Company.
- The paper and humans AI has been working on automating and replacing humans ever since, and optimizing itself to work on paper, humans and silicon.
- The current slope is steeper than ever before.
- The state is also part of the AI.
Who will be designing the pure-silicon AI? The paper, humans and silicon AI. If we want to make sure a friendly artificial general intelligence happens, we need to make friendly corporations and states happen, or replace them with something else entirely.
- The Singularity started in 1602 with the IPO of the Dutch East India Company.
- The paper and humans AI has been working on automating and replacing humans ever since, and optimizing itself to work on paper, humans and silicon.
- The current slope is steeper than ever before.
- The state is also part of the AI.
Who will be designing the pure-silicon AI? The paper, humans and silicon AI. If we want to make sure a friendly artificial general intelligence happens, we need to make friendly corporations and states happen, or replace them with something else entirely.
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@clacke If you think of things along that lines, then don't we already have AGI in the form of corporations or societies? Then your reframing is just meant to appeal to folks who care abt AI risk but ignore immediate social ills, specifically in externalities of capitalist economies? Talk about narrow-casting 😉
