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12 Jul 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

“Like how I think we'll see angels or bodhisattvas or Saints or whatever your culture's kind of default metaphor for a really good being that's better than humans is.”

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12 Jul 2026
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The Cognitive Revolution

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…So in your positive vision of the future, just going back to this question of like, how different do you think things will be? Obviously you're talking, you know, drastic differences for sure. But if we Fast forward 100 years and we imagine or not imagine we face these AI successors that have recursively self improved from this kind of starting point of being in our benevolent wisdom basin. Do you think we will look at them and see Cousins or? Like how I think we'll see angels or bodhisattvas or Saints or whatever your culture's kind of default metaphor for a really good being that's better than humans is. But I mean, I think there's also a way of looking at it which is like, we'll see ourselves, but better like that. We'll see ourselves fully realized. Yeah, OK, that's it. That's an amazing vision. And I think, I don't know, I've been kind of signed up for that as an outcome. I don't know how many people would. I think a lot of people probably would. It certainly is validating or encouraging in the sense that it's like you don't have you as a modern day human with a terrestrial value system. You're saying you don't have to give that up. In fact, you're on the right track and what we're going to see is the realization of your value system. Rune said something like this the other day, that guys will realize your value system better than you ever did or could. I was I had a conversation about how that might turn into a panopticon style mass surveillance. But if everybody's, if all the agents are realizing the value system, then that maybe doesn't matter so much. And maybe that's part of how the coalition is maintained.…

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