- url(s): https://twitter.com/repligate/status/1744836548539928948
- author: Janus
3 years ago I set out to gain as much agency over AI technology as I could due to instrumental convergence among other reasons. People who feel technology is just something done to them are missing the insight that it’s at its most mutable ever.
Generative AI lowered barriers a lot, even if power structures immediately began seeking to recrystallize
You can become the world expert in some dimensions of AI in a few months, including dimensions that no one recognizes as existing until u do it and then it’s all the rage
Most people don’t have the ability to gain agency over arbitrary domains or to figure out which ones are mutable and future relevant on their own
I’d say non human animals deserve a say too but they don’t currently have one
But the fact is that many people who don’t lack the verbal and analytical skills accept a lack of agency
And there is potential for agency to be given to even more people if we leverage what has already equalized things significantly even if this fact is mostly unrecognized
One of the things I’m trying to build is a [untranslatable concept; closest: ascension maze] that would allow a much larger percentage of the population to go through a similar class of journey as I did. One of the things you gain from it is agency over technology