/lit/ - Literature

>>15233213
Singularity University, which we discussed in Part VI of Chapter One of this book, purportedly was created to help technophiles "guide research" and "shape the advances" so that technology would "improve society." We pointed out that Singularity University served in practice to promote the interests of technology-orientated businessmen, and we expressed doubt that the majority of technophiles fully believed in the drivel about "shaping the advances" to "improve society." It does seem, however, that the techies -the subset of the technophiles that we specified at the beginning of this Part V of the present chapter-are entirely sincere in their belief that organizations like Singularity University will help them to "shape the advances" of technology and keep the technological society on the road to a utopian future. A utopian future will have to exclude the competitive processes that would deprive the techies of their thousand-year life-span. But we showed in Chapter One that the development of our society can never be subject to rational control: The techies won't be able to "shape the advances" of technology, guide the course of technological progress, or exclude the intense competition that will eliminate nearly all techies in short order.

>>14482919
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

>>14389472
A superintelligence wouldn't necessarily have to be conscious/have qualia like humans do. Since the first superintelligence to be created would have a massive first mover advantage, there is a realistic chance that a non-sentient ASI will be created, and wipe all consciousness from existence.

>>14262630
Singularitarianism