"ASI and Liberty: Can we do better than a benevolent god?" by Raymond Douglas

Zvi recently coined a nice distinction between AGI-pilled and ASI-pilled: as more people are reckoning with the speed of progress, some are beginning to come around to the fact that AI could be superhuman at a huge range of tasks in a way that radically reshapes society, but not that it could leap us to the end of the tech tree shortly afterwards and start making nanotech and dyson spheres. Hence, you see people saying things like “Because of AI we must rethink the entire notion of mathema...