zetalyrae on the rationalist AI utopia: humans as bugs in a box served by a benevolent AI deity
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-21
- zetalyrae sketches the "rationalist AI utopia": humans as bugs in a box passively receiving goods from a benevolent AI deity — trash collection, coordination, even wireheading.
- In the attached excerpt he argues the counterintuitiveness of AI in positions of control stems from a quasi-fascist outlook where leadership must belong to your own group.
- His liberal framing: the state is a service provider dispensing coordination, order, and redistribution. Services can be automated — robot garbage collectors, robot legislators, and why should the president alone be exempt from automation?
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