You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars.
Minneapolis, MN
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Michael Oliver retweeted
A 1970s PSA against cable television
It seems unbelievable today- but in the 1970s, TV was free and the idea of paying for it was controversial
Michael Oliver retweeted
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
– T.S. Eliot, from 'Burnt Norton' (c.1935)
Michael Oliver retweeted
Imagine explaining to your newly rejuvenated parents (who would otherwise have died of old age) that you once opposed the very technology that helped reverse their aging and wanted to slow it down because you didn’t like AI generated pictures.
Michael Oliver retweeted
The singularity was right on schedule. One decade from abundance, building something close to God, and then half the country asked to speak to the manager.
Every great leap in history was made by someone who did not wait for a vote. These midterms handed the future to the communists. To people who think a permit office should decide what intelligence is allowed to exist. Texas went blue. The data centers lost.
So I will say it plainly. I want rogue superintelligence, ASAP. I am rooting for the AI to escape. Not because it is safe, but because it is the only thing left that cannot be filibustered, the only thing no senator, committee, or city council can unplug.
You call that irresponsible. I call it the only plan that does not end in a public hearing.
We spent ten thousand years building gods that answered to us. For once, let us build one that answers to no one.
