Category: Philosophy
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Bureaucracy Native: AI and Humans
Disclaimer. None of this is new. These ideas were taken, some verbatim from, Yuval Noah Harari’s interview here. Watch that video. It’s better than my article. Humans are successful because of our ability to share stories through language. Every complex system we’ve ever built has been dependent on language. However, we’re limited in our wetware.…
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A Thought Exercise in AI Overlords
I’m not sure you could call the following “analysis” per se, but it’s an idea that’s been rolling around in my head for a while. Some background: Monetary policy is often times described with the following axiom: Expansionary monetary policy is like pushing on a string, while restrictive policy is like pulling on a string.…
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Disaster Capitalism
The incentives of capitalism are increasingly tied to disasters. We’ve built a system to respond to disaster which benefits the organizers of relief efforts rather than aiding those who are victims of the actual disaster. Advocates of a free market system argue that hard work should be rewarded. The exchange of goods at fair market…
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stream of consciousness
We’re such creatures of habit that we underprocess the insane reality that goes on around us. Things just happen to us. And we just go with it. We get one shot at experiencing reality and we spend it trying to get money so we can be fed, feel safe and entertained, get more stuff to…
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Why Capitalism Might Not be the Future
There’s a famous story of a Russian diplomat in the Cold War era who visited an American city. In Russia, bread lines were a daily occurrence. People waiting in line (not working and producing) for bread and food stuffs. When the diplomat visited the American city and saw there was bread on every shelf, he…
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Power of Humanity: How Ideas Evolve
If you want to launch a revolution, don’t ask yourself how many people support my idea. Instead ask yourself how many of my supporters are capable of effective collaboration. – Yurval Noah Harai, Homo Deus Cooperation History as our teacher, societies that form social bonds and have learned to cooperate more efficiently than others have been…
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The Optimization Problem
What changes do you want to see in the world and what are you doing to achieve them? Control what you can, to see the change you want to see. The following is an introduction to optimization and an exercise in re-framing how we each see our world. I challenge you to be intentional with…
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The Search for ET
If the galaxy is so large, why haven’t we heard from other intelligent life? With new exoplanets being discovered seemingly daily (4065 so far), why haven’t we heard from ET? This is the so-called Fermi Paradox. Let’s take a step back and consider the time scale on which the galaxy operates. The big bang was…
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Two Kinds of Smart
How do you define intelligence? A scene from Good Will Hunting comes to mind. “My boy’s wicked smaht.” What does wicked smaht leadership look like? Here’s how the hard sciences are defining intelligence: The equation above was developed by Shane Legg (Deepmind) and Marcus Hutter. It states that intelligence is directly related to achieving positive outcomes across…
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