(Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.

This essay is part of a series that I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far.

Warning: spoilers for Yudkowsky's "The Sword of the Good.")

"The Creation" by Lucas Cranach (image source here)

The colors of the wheel

I've never been big on personality typologies. I've heard the Myers-Briggs explained many times, and it never sticks. Extraversion and introversion, E or I, OK. But after that merciful vowel—man, the opacity of those consonants, NTJ, SFP... And remind me the difference between thinking and judging? Perceiving and sensing? N stands for intuition?

Similarly, the [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) The colors of the wheel

(04:36) Gestures at green

(07:39) Green-blindness

(13:53) Why is green-blindness a problem?

(23:23) Green, according to non-Green

(28:11) Green and respect

(32:22) Blurring the self

(37:22) Respecting superintelligences

(46:04) Green and joy

(48:15) Love and otherness

(57:40) The future of yin

(01:01:43) Next up: Attunement

(01:02:36) Appendix: Taking guidance from God

The original text contained 47 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gvNnE6Th594kfdB3z/on-green

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“On green” by Joe Carlsmith

LessWrong (30+ Karma)