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

This essay is part of a series 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 a summary of the essays that have been released thus far, and for a bit more about the series as a whole.)

In my last essay, I talked about the possibility of "gentleness" towards various non-human Others – for example, animals, aliens, and AI systems. But I also highlighted the possibility of "getting eaten," in the way that Timothy Treadwell gets eaten by a bear in Herzog's Grizzly Man: that is, eaten in the midst of an attempt at gentleness.

Herzog accuses Treadwell of failing to take seriously the "overwhelming indifference of Nature." And I [...]

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Outline:

(01:18) Baby-eaters

(05:58) Yin and yang

(13:46) The death of many gods

(15:26) The basic atheism of epistemology as such

(24:08) Whats the problem with trust?

(31:20) On priors, is a given God dead?

(37:35) Are moral realists theists?

(49:16) What do you trust?

The original text contained 15 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
January 4th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sJPbmm8Gd34vGYrKd/deep-atheism-and-ai-risk

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Deep atheism and AI risk” by Joe Carlsmith

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