New essay! On how most of the huge questions about the coming AI revolution aren’t really about AI in a narrow, technical sense - and why it will be a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/most-quest...
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Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
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Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI conspicuouscognition.com
Can Humanity Survive Superintelligence? (with Robert Wright) youtube.com
Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada) youtube.com
Can Humanity Survive Superintelligence? (with Robert Wright) conspicuouscognition.com
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New conversation with @robertwrighter.bsky.social and @henryshevlin.bsky.social about Bob's fascinating new book on AI, 'The God Test'. We chat about AI progress, superintelligence, the US-China race, global coordination, evolution’s purpose, and consciousness. www.youtube.com…
@henryshevlin.bsky.social and I chat with Judith Dada, co-author of 'Europe 2031', about rapid AI progress, slow institutional adoption, Europe’s dependence on American models, compute sovereignty, data centres, energy and regulation, and the geopolitics of AI: www.youtube.com…
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"Whereas when I think about the evolution of all life on earth, it doesn’t seem to be culminating in a really unified, bounded, coordinated system in the way you find with an individual organism, at least as of now."
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