Jun 16, 2024
A Future We Would Like - The most important questions are not about technology but about us. What sorts of future would we like? What role could AI play in getting us there, and also in that world? What is your own role in helping that happen?
https://betterwithout.ai/a-future-we-would-like
How AI Destroyed The Future -We are doing a terrible job of thinking about the most important question because unimaginably powerful evil artificial intelligences are controlling our brains.
https://betterwithout.ai/AI-destroyed-the-future
A One-Bit Future - Superintelligence scenarios reduce the future to infinitely good or infinitely bad. Both are possible, but we cannot reason about or act toward them. Messy complicated good-and-bad futures are probably more likely, and in any case are more feasible to influence.
https://betterwithout.ai/one-bit-future
This episode mentions David Chapman's essay "Vaster Than Ideology" for getting AI out of your head.
Text link: https://meaningness.com/vaster-than-ideology
Episode link: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/vaster-than-ideology