(this is a little bit different than 'slow takeoff'–i think it will just take society longer to figure out what to really do with very powerful than intuition suggests)
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AGI Development Timeline and Delayed Societal Impact
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prediction: agi gets built sooner that most people think, and takes much longer to "change everything" that most people imagine
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Non-Western Ethics Beyond Western Rationalism in AI
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It’s clear & I’m very glad you’re working on this.There’s already an irony in contrasting NW to western ethics if there’s an either or mentality.This frames the duality of western rationalism & minimizes the consciousness opening,joyful learning when moving beyond reductionism.
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GDP Growth Model Ignores Planet and Majority of People
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Anything supporting the GDP, productivity and growth = good model in isolation means ignoring the planet & a majority of its people. Where long termism is defined as a Seven Generations model ancestors & the earth are honored. Otherwise, it’s techno solutionism for the few.
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Measuring Nations by IQ Per Capita Instead of GDP
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GDP per capita is fine, it's time we start measuring how countries rank on IQ per capita.
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Growing Up in the Virtual Fifties: Nostalgia and Tech Evolution
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I like to say that we grew up in the (virtual) 50s.
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Authoritarian Personality Types in Corporate Tech Culture
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Recommended reading: the Wikipedia article on the authoritarian personality type (Useful if you're scratching you head at all of these people on Twitter who think you should expect to be fired for disagreeing with your CEO)
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Elon Musk fires Twitter employees for internal disagreement
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He isn't just firing people who posted in public, he's actively hunting down people who disagreed with him internally too https://
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Feature That Matters Most
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I ignored Mastodon for 6 years because I knew that decentralized social networks could never be as low friction and easy to use as something like Twitter … but they also can't be bought by a billionaire narcissist, and it turns out that might be the feature that matters most!
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Fediverse as Twitter Alternative: Decentralized Future Trust
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I'm honestly having trouble imagining a viable future Twitter alternative that isn't part of the fediverse (Mastodon is currently just the most visible implementation) Are we really all going to trust some new centralized startup, after how badly we got burned on Twitter?