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Reify This ideas letter essay

Reify This

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Ben Recht Henry Farrell ae Tyler Shoemaker Paul Hünermund

“Reify This! www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

“This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

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Ben Recht: In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Ben Recht: I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
Hagen Blix: "If you ask interpretability or alignment researchers how that might come about, you will receive hours-long, mind-numbing lectures about the long-term future of humanity cast in some of the most i…
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