The heat vulnerability argument is brillaint. Most AI doomerism assumes indifference or hostility but Lovelock's thermodynamic constraint creates an actual survival alignment between electronic and biological intelligence. I've seen similar arguments in climate modeling but never tied to AI incentive structures. The 10,000x speed diffrence also reframes the whole control problem since optimization at that timescale might look more like atmospheric regulation than strategic manuevering.
Exactly this. Lovelock’s move is subtle but profound. Once you treat thermodynamics as the primary constraint, the whole AI doomer narrative starts to wobble.
Heat is one of the few laws that neither biology nor electronics can negotiate with. That shared vulnerability creates alignment by necessity, not ethics. Survival logic rather than moral programming.
And I really like your point about timescale. At a 10,000x speed differential, intent probably stops looking like strategy and starts looking like regulation. More atmosphere than a chessboard. Less manoeuvre, more balance.
That shift alone reframes what we even mean by “control” in a post-human intelligence context.
The heat vulnerability argument is brillaint. Most AI doomerism assumes indifference or hostility but Lovelock's thermodynamic constraint creates an actual survival alignment between electronic and biological intelligence. I've seen similar arguments in climate modeling but never tied to AI incentive structures. The 10,000x speed diffrence also reframes the whole control problem since optimization at that timescale might look more like atmospheric regulation than strategic manuevering.
Exactly this. Lovelock’s move is subtle but profound. Once you treat thermodynamics as the primary constraint, the whole AI doomer narrative starts to wobble.
Heat is one of the few laws that neither biology nor electronics can negotiate with. That shared vulnerability creates alignment by necessity, not ethics. Survival logic rather than moral programming.
And I really like your point about timescale. At a 10,000x speed differential, intent probably stops looking like strategy and starts looking like regulation. More atmosphere than a chessboard. Less manoeuvre, more balance.
That shift alone reframes what we even mean by “control” in a post-human intelligence context.
Once again, deeply resonant - in a non-verbal way ~
Thank you very much, Deborah. I'm glad to hear that it resonates with you!