❝ This has little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons.
It is the spirit of conquest...the process of the complete destruction of civilization. ❞
— Ludvig Von Mises Human Action
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Critical Systems Existential Risk (Studies)
A heterodox alternative uniting critical theory and systems theory to identify the generative mechanisms of existential risk
by Max Ramsahoye
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'Working in ERS–working to avoid human extinction–does not mean uncritically holding up the status quo as the ideal or even as acceptable'
'Working in ERS–working to avoid human extinction–does not mean uncritically holding up the status quo as the ideal or even as acceptable'
A heterodox alternative uniting critical theory and systems theory to identify the generative mechanisms of existential risk
A heterodox alternative uniting critical theory and systems theory to identify the generative mechanisms of existential risk
'Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology' (Zizek)
'Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology' (Zizek)
Without incorporating critical thought, Forethought will reproduce the problem of power it seeks to solve
Without incorporating critical thought, Forethought will reproduce the problem of power it seeks to solve
'The fresh design of a meta-system, exerting meta-controls, is the only solution to our problems' (Beer)
'The fresh design of a meta-system, exerting meta-controls, is the only solution to our problems' (Beer)
Absent an actual plan for the form post-AGI society will take, Forethought will only produce vague philosophical notions, system-blind in their intent
Absent an actual plan for the form post-AGI society will take, Forethought will only produce vague philosophical notions, system-blind in their intent
"The ideology that that we tend to perceive as non-ideological is precisely where we should be most alert to the functioning of ideology" (Fischer)
"The ideology that that we tend to perceive as non-ideological is precisely where we should be most alert to the functioning of ideology" (Fischer)
Long-Term Risk from Post-Ideological Hyper-Normalisation
Long-Term Risk from Post-Ideological Hyper-Normalisation
“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.”
— Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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