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reducesuffering

Even worse, some factions literally advocate for killing all humans in the pursuit of a synthetic intelligence, and YC's Garry Tan is advocating for these people!

Beff Jezos (e/acc founder): "e/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism

    Parts of e/acc (e.g. Beff) consider ourselves post-humanists; in order to spread to the stars, the light of consciousness/intelligence will have to be transduced to non-biological substrates"

https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten...

Is this particularly controversial? Isn't this just saying "sending not-biological bodies to the stars would be a heck of a lot easier"? Which, it would. The hard disk containing me is going to be a lot easier to keep intact then the biology.

Let's hope Jezos gets transduced first, inshallah.

Im sure he'd be happy to become the first multi-instantiated, immortal billionaire. The pesky laws about death and personhood would need to be changed first though.

This is the definition of strawman. "Advocate for killing all humans" sounds like someone advocating for a genocide, but instead it's just the same transhumanist thinking (which Yudkowsky also believes in, FYI)

Commenter: "If AI replaced us, it's fine because they're a worthy descendants?"

Beff Jezos / Verdon: "Personally, yes."

Yudkowsky is transhumanist in that he is hopeful people could voluntarily extend their biological self, but isn't advocating for the elimination of all biological selves in pursuit of other artificial intelligences.

Voluntary /= involuntary eradication

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