Great post! Silicon Valley often likes to claim that their looting and pillaging from the public trust is all in the best interests of the people. That's exactly why they're so concerned with AI. When their primary stat score is garbage, who's going to need them anymore?
Obviously unaligned AI is a threat, but if Silicon Valley was genuinely concerned about it, then why aren't they doing anything about the unaligned AI algorithms that already exist, which are creating a civil war?
It's because those unaligned AIs make social media companies a lot of money. So when SillyCon Valley pretends to panic about how unaligned AI is SUPER DANGEROUS (which it is) just remember that their words don't match their actions: they don't give a crap about their *own* unaligned AIs which are trying to start a civil war and collapse society just so that Dorsey and Zuckerberg can make an extra billion dollars.
Yes, the unwillingness of people to talk about differences in IQ actually hurts those it pretends to protect. It's impossible to resolve any imbalance if you're unwilling to acknowledge it exists. Could it be environmental instead of racial? Absolutely. But if we're unwilling to even acknowledge that it exists, we'll never know - and we'll never have a chance to rectify any environmental imbalances which may exist.
However the problem with AI (machine learning) as a solution to this is that it's likely to max out at 15, not 18. Because, it's derivative. And this derivativeness is inherent (it's actually a feature of the design, not a bug). This means it can't actually reason, so it can't create truly novel things (or arguments).
Yes, maybe eventually it will. But the chance that it does that with any of the current technologies approaches zero. It will take a new technology (or several) to get there - and there don't appear to even be any in the wings with those capabilities on the menu.
So, there will still be a need for those truly gifted with intelligence.
However, the reason so many in the intelligentsia class are scared is because they realize they don't fit into that category. The vast majority of academics and professional commentators chose their professions for the benefits it brings (status, money, etc.), not because they're any good at it. So, most are at best slightly above average in intelligence (it does take some intelligence to learn to follow arcane rules and processes). So, when getting a fancy degree stops being needed to produce most of the (mostly useless) academic/political content, they'll become obsolete.
They're scared, because they'll lose their jobs, or at least their status. But the rest of us will benefit as more people come to realize that even a machine can churn out better content than most of the snob class.
Hey, maybe watch this before pushing the racist lies presented in The Bell Curve. If you consider yourself a science-literate person it dismantles ever position you can use to argue this nonsense ever again, so maybe you won't use a game to push your Race Essentialist beliefs anymore.
Making INT no longer important has a negative effect on high-INT SV professionals. But the Smart Stones have another, massively more important effect: they may make humans extinct.
Great post! Silicon Valley often likes to claim that their looting and pillaging from the public trust is all in the best interests of the people. That's exactly why they're so concerned with AI. When their primary stat score is garbage, who's going to need them anymore?
Obviously unaligned AI is a threat, but if Silicon Valley was genuinely concerned about it, then why aren't they doing anything about the unaligned AI algorithms that already exist, which are creating a civil war?
https://questioner.substack.com/p/our-violent-era
It's because those unaligned AIs make social media companies a lot of money. So when SillyCon Valley pretends to panic about how unaligned AI is SUPER DANGEROUS (which it is) just remember that their words don't match their actions: they don't give a crap about their *own* unaligned AIs which are trying to start a civil war and collapse society just so that Dorsey and Zuckerberg can make an extra billion dollars.
Yes, the unwillingness of people to talk about differences in IQ actually hurts those it pretends to protect. It's impossible to resolve any imbalance if you're unwilling to acknowledge it exists. Could it be environmental instead of racial? Absolutely. But if we're unwilling to even acknowledge that it exists, we'll never know - and we'll never have a chance to rectify any environmental imbalances which may exist.
However the problem with AI (machine learning) as a solution to this is that it's likely to max out at 15, not 18. Because, it's derivative. And this derivativeness is inherent (it's actually a feature of the design, not a bug). This means it can't actually reason, so it can't create truly novel things (or arguments).
Yes, maybe eventually it will. But the chance that it does that with any of the current technologies approaches zero. It will take a new technology (or several) to get there - and there don't appear to even be any in the wings with those capabilities on the menu.
So, there will still be a need for those truly gifted with intelligence.
However, the reason so many in the intelligentsia class are scared is because they realize they don't fit into that category. The vast majority of academics and professional commentators chose their professions for the benefits it brings (status, money, etc.), not because they're any good at it. So, most are at best slightly above average in intelligence (it does take some intelligence to learn to follow arcane rules and processes). So, when getting a fancy degree stops being needed to produce most of the (mostly useless) academic/political content, they'll become obsolete.
They're scared, because they'll lose their jobs, or at least their status. But the rest of us will benefit as more people come to realize that even a machine can churn out better content than most of the snob class.
Hey, maybe watch this before pushing the racist lies presented in The Bell Curve. If you consider yourself a science-literate person it dismantles ever position you can use to argue this nonsense ever again, so maybe you won't use a game to push your Race Essentialist beliefs anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Making INT no longer important has a negative effect on high-INT SV professionals. But the Smart Stones have another, massively more important effect: they may make humans extinct.