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“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.”
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Martine Rothblatt PhD • Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality
If we ask who was more correct—the theologians who argued for a Creator-God, or the intellectually unfulfilled atheists who argued that mice spontaneously generated—then the theologians must be declared the victors: evolution is not God, but it is closer to God than it is to pure random entropy. Mutation is random, but selection is non-random. This
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
existential risks > core product (including which countries to invest in further) > new products.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
the human brain has evolved in a way that focuses on surviving rather than thriving. In doing so, it has developed a mechanism through which all things in the world that are not directly related to immediate survival are automatically elbowed out of the thinking process. ‘The brain is a machine assembled not to understand itself, but to survive’, b
... See moreWaqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
The potential threat of superintelligence is not down to the intelligence of the machines. It’s down to our own stupidity, our intelligence being blinded by our arrogance, greed and political agendas.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
In his 2014 book, Superintelligence, the philosopher Nick Bostrom illustrated the danger using a thought experiment, which is reminiscent of Goethe’s “Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Bostrom asks us to imagine that a paper-clip factory buys a superintelligent computer and that the factory’s human manager gives the computer a seemingly simple task: produce
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system. Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got th
... See moreNick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Artificial General Intelligence
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