Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 2)

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• 00:00:03

  Hello, everyone. Welcome to the second session of Nick Land's Anthropole, the Future of Human Insecurity Seminar. I'm going to pass on the mic and the camera to Nick to start his class. Okay, cool. Thanks, Mo. Yes, welcome, everybody. So today's sort of kickoff point on this is I've broadcast it as the paper clipper…

• 00:21:20

  ...I don't know if this is good or bad in this case... ...we've got the means and... ...distinction... ...but this is something that is going to be... ...particularly delicate to use... ...as we'll see in... ...the way Bostrom handles it... ...he uses that particular opposition... ...in a very peculiar sense…

• 00:43:14

  This would be the way it would identify itself, and therefore it would have a clear motive to prevent future changes or revisions to its quote-unquote final goal. So finality instead of stupidity would be DNA. Yes. Yes. What did you think of that? Well, I think there's a lot going on there, and there's two sort…

• 01:09:37

  Yeah, sure. Just between being like you and me and Nick, kind of like going over like what was proposed earlier. Yeah. You think we should actually start arm-twisting people here, no? Yeah, maybe. Or just be invited, welcoming. More welcoming, maybe. Welcoming, welcoming. Turn to the violence a little bit later. I…

• 01:30:11

  You get, like, epidemics, pandemics, right? Invasive species, perfect example, yeah? So that, in a way, is intuitive, that intelligence explosion part of it. The thing that is very biologically unintuitive is the, these sorts of orthogonality constraints where it's not so much basic drives in terms of resource…

• 01:53:50

  Which, I mean, obviously is a completely legitimate question. I'm deeply sympathetic to it. But I think we have to... We have to presume... You know, as I say, I don't want to be dogmatic about this. I mean, people could just basically disband Anthropole by week three and we could be wandering into different…

• 02:17:00

  You don't build a box at all then you're vulnerable to all sorts of other sort of AI takeover type scenarios. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. So, uh Nick, I was also wondering if there's a way of synthesizing Lendl's concerns back into back into a discussion, you know, Lendl's like the idea of material limitations, right? To…

• 02:42:59

  There's some fascinating material there, but I'm really looking forward to having a proper – spending some proper quality time with it. So great. See you next week. Thank you. And the broadcast ends right here. Thanks. Thanks.