📡 No.317 — From utopian Star Trek to absurdist Douglas Adams? ⊗ How to fix “AI’s original sin” ⊗ Islands of coherence

Steve Omohundro, a computer scientist and physicist who specializes in how artificial intelligence will affect society, outlined the three basic drives most intelligent beings – which includes us as much as it does AI – will follow to achieve goals. The first of these is self-preservation. This is simple to understand. In order to achieve a goal, o

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These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us ... See more