animasuri

Hugo de Garis foresaw that, as AGI moved toward reality, the world would be dominated by a war between Terrans and Cosmists.... But what I see in the world right is more like five broad groups, -- TERRANS for real, i.e. folks who want to see tech progress slowed or halted because it's a threat to traditional humanity as they conceive it -- OPTIMIST COSMISTS, i.e. folks who want to see AGI bring us into a radical new domain in which humans can co-exist with posthuman minds, and who figure that if we don't screw up the Singularity stupidly, this is a fairly likely outcome -- PESSIMIST COSMISTS, who would love to see a beautiful future with humans co-existing with radically different/smarter posthuman and AGI minds, but who figure the most likely outcome of ASI is all humans being annihilated and either a paperclip maximizer type debacle or something else less stupid but radically incomprehensible to and irrelevant to humans -- CORPORATISTS, who promote ineffectual and poorly-conceived government/corporate policy measures to supposedly control AGI, while in the meantime wanting to push full-force ahead with development toward AGI within corporate and government labs -- NARROW AI ISTS, who believe current AI tech should be left mostly unregulated and disseminated openly, not because they are optimistic cosmists, but because they figure AGI is still very far off and so stuff like AGI existential risk is still mostly in the domain of SF ... At the moment it seems like the Corporatists and Narrow AI ists are in the majority in the tech sphere. Terrans may well be the majority planet-wide. I don't know if Optimist or Pessimist Cosmists are more common.