What if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that you need AGI to figure out interstellar travel but the AGI keeps killing everyone before it tells them how to do interstellar travel?
@packym
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Zap Tech: Multiple Use Cases and API Development Potential
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lotta use cases for this zap tech, may build an api
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Eco’s Ambitious Monetary Experiment Attracts Top Talent
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Eco keeps pulling people I really respect into the Eco-system. Usually a good signal that something special is happening There's something attractive about designing what Annika said "might be the most ambitious monetary experiment on earth."
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Forever Games Redefining Work and AI Integration Society
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I think Asimov's view is more prescient, but that we'll wrap "whatever we wish" in game-like work (or work-like games). According to @mitchlasky
's definition of a Forever Game from Gamecraft with @blakeir
, a lot of us already are. https://
open.spotify.com/episode/10GsRW
exiOT9NhK0CsAKEx?si=7177d55cee0e4937
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New Technologies Will Soon Surpass Current Digital Trends
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Anyway, at some point pretty soon, those day in the life TikToks and NFT trading are going to look pretty quaint. Let the games begin.
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UBI as Permanent Stimulus: Reimagining Work and Society
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UBI is ZIRP on steroids rolled up with perma-stimmies. Instead of saying, “Here, you can borrow money for practically nothing but you’ll need to pay us back,” UBI says, “Here, take this money.” What would we do in a world with UBI, where we don't need to work to live?
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Vonnegut vs Asimov: Two Competing Visions of AI Future
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Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov had two very different visions for that future. Vonnegut: dig holes, and fill them back in. Asimov: Whatever You Wish.
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OpenAI explores UBI experiments as AGI approaches workforce transformation
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At some point, we might not *need* to work to make a living. In that Planning for AGI post, @sama wrote that OpenAI's nonprofit could do things like “sponsor the world’s most comprehensive UBI experiment.” https://
openai.com/blog/planning-
for-agi-and-beyond
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