K.E. Cox recounts rejecting an EA futurist's 'optimal prison' of AI-guarded abundance without individual power
esrtweet · x · 2026-10-14
ArtemisConsort (K.E. Cox) describes a private exchange with a prominent early EA/futurist who pitched a future of total abundance but zero individual power, overseen by an omnipotent AI demigod. When she proposed building a competing ASI, he slammed the table: crush it. A generation ship escape was rejected over risk she might return to attack.
She concludes she rejects even an optimal prison, and opposes any rationalism more specific than 'trying to know the truth,' arguing such doctrines foreclose fundamentally new ways of knowing. A substantive AGI values-alignment debate about individual freedom vs. benevolent AI oversight.
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