Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity? That is the question I consider in my new blog post. Yes, it is a comment on the superintelligence/x-risk debate. Read the full thing here:
https://t.co/KNE9yxpStQ
Or follow along for a few tweets first, if you prefer.

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This golden-armored extraordinary PXLROBOT is called the Master of Coins!
A highly strategic brain and a natural superintelligence helped him being the richest of all.
The Master of Coins knows how, when and where to spend them...he lives on a pile of gold!

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What if the Great Filter preventing us from colonizing space (an answer to why aliens didn't visit yet) is an inherent destructiveness of a superintelligence? Like it self-destroying on purpose out of boredom after solving life, or accidentally due to its high-speed decisions.

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On Earth-11491,

Captain America has revealed his secret weapon to the Avengers: his superintelligence. Steve Rogers, as it turns out, gained genius-level intellect as a result of the Super-Soldier Serum.

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✨Secret identities 🥸✨
Superstrength ✔ , superspeed ✔ , superintelligence 🥴

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Here (according to Asimov) a deep metaphorical meaning is hidden, that a person evolves into a superintelligence, reaches a technological limit and becomes something divine, a pure androgyne controlling the entire galaxy. In fact, he becomes a deity, the creator of a new world.

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"Awakened Ascendant"
In 3500 CE, in the murky, polluted and drained waters of what was once the oceans of Earth, rose the ascendant peoples, the "perfect beings" synthesized by a superintelligence, and they have risen to scour the world of its many pests and anomalies.

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