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human premium in an AI future
alexi gunner • 16 cards
[H]omo economicus is an isolated individual, while homo speculans, in Komporozos-Athanasiou’s formulation, is a member of a “speculative community.”
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. As there was no visible limit to the power Haber wielded through Orr’s dreams, so t
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Lathe Of Heaven
Humans, and essentially all the animals you know and love, typically harness a couple thousand kilojoules per mole by burning food with oxygen.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
consciousness
Mary Martin • 4 cards
Ego
Steven Schlafman • 1 card
Generative AI is a Resurrection Machine
epsilontheory.com
enoughness
Agalia Tan • 1 card
Along these lines, one recalls, too, Arendt’s warning in the prologue to The Human Condition: “The future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it w... See more