On green

By Joe_Carlsmith @ 2024-03-21T17:38 (+61)

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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Dave Cortright @ 2024-03-22T00:13 (+9)

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SummaryBot @ 2024-03-22T12:56 (+2)

Executive summary: Green, a perspective that values harmony with nature, tradition, and joy in otherness, is often missing from AI risk discourse but has important wisdom to offer.

Key points:

  1. Green values attunement with nature, respect for tradition and lineage, and taking joy in otherness rather than seeking total control.
  2. AI risk discourse and related ideologies like rationalism and effective altruism tend to be "green-blind" and miss green's perspective.
  3. Green's emphasis on respect, humility and preserving what exists is relevant to concerns about advanced AI systems disrupting the world.
  4. Green points to the importance of finding joy in engaging with an "Other" that exceeds our full understanding and control.
  5. In the age of AGI, green raises the concern that the pursuit of power and yang could come at the cost of valuable forms of yin and otherness.
  6. A good future should preserve green values like connection with nature while still wisely using technology to improve the world.

 

 

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EcologyInterventions @ 2024-04-04T20:45 (+1)

This is really getting at something I've been dancing around for awhile. I don't have quite the same read of green, but I'm not sure my own version is coherent or just "things I like." I have the start of an essay inspired by this, at least. 

Most of all: Thank you very very much.