20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God

LessWrong! Yudkowsky! Rationality! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-in-ai-god/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 T-SHIRTS AND MUGS 25% OFF! https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/ Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/rationality-common-interest-of-many-causes Singletons Rule OK https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rSTpxugJxFPoRMkGW/singletons-rule-ok Beyond the Reach of God https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god Timeless Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/924arDrTu3QRHFA5r/timeless-identity Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RLScTpwc5W2gGGrL9/identity-isn-t-in-specific-atoms Three Dialogues on Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity Continuous Improvement https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QfpHRAMRM2HjteKFK/continuous-improvement "I think it's a mistake to put Eliezer Yudkowsky in the live forever via AI group" https://bsky.app/profile/bvlsingler.bsky.social/post/3lwehtewetc2v Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality https://hpmor.com/ Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrHuPziFH7Ef7p/why-are-individual-iq-differences-ok Beware of Stephen J. Gould https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to EA should unequivocally condemn race science https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MCxtGbzeyfFDmrJZx/ea-should-unequivocally-condemn-race-science Roko's basilisk https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk Adam Becker: More Everything Forever https://amzn.to/4fKxspM (UK), https://amzn.to/3HCURwE (US) Previously on Pivot to AI: Vox: Arts funding is an outrage! Averting AI doom is much more effective altruism https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/ Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYFX8uNDfA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA