00:01 The likelihood of achieving superintelligence is very high. 02:23 Effective accelerationism philosophy in Silicon Valley 06:52 AI shaping the future and the challenges of activism 09:20 The risks of existential risks and the immediate impact of AI on society are worth worrying about. 14:08 Exploring a world where all practical problems are solved 16:26 Achieving fulfillment and purpose through AI-managed maintenance and psychological engineering techniques. 20:20 From post-scarcity to post-work Utopia 22:08 Super Advanced automation technology could lead to a plastic Utopia where we have complete control over our bodies and minds. 26:04 Reimagining human existence in a transformed world 27:52 Human nature is not ready for a perfect world due to evolution under scarcity 31:47 Seeking to enhance human capabilities for a fulfilling future. 33:49 Exploring the possibility of escaping a simulation with superintelligence. Crafted by Merlin AI.
How many of us actually believe that what we spend wost of our time on is worth doing? Not logically, like yeah of course when I was loading and unloading trucks all day, sure it's worth doing so people get their stuff in the mail... I wish I could feel a real sense of meaning and contribution from that, but that's not how my brain works. I've tried to turn the entire job into a meditative practice which helped for a while, but when the company just cycles through casuals that work their buts off, get sick, get hurt, and quit, that's hard man. They intentionally decreased our hours from 8 per day to 5 to make us more productive and force us to come in more often to make the same money. Rough when you're not getting healthcare you need and everything costs a fortune. I'm just worried because every time humans invent something that increases productivity and automation work just becomes more demanding if you can even get work.
Bingo, you have seen the absolute correlation of massive increase of productivity over the last several decades with increased technology, yet wages adjusted for inflation are lower than they were in the 70s. AI will make what is already historic inequality in the US, much much much worse.
But the 'window of time' through which we view progress and evolution of any type of system is critically important to actually understanding it. That isn't to deny your experience or the fact of inequality in the current economic paradigm. In essence, one needs an expandable and contractable window, width expansion opens up the time scale, height expansion allows more data in.
If a civilisation is advanced enough to make a simulated universe, then there should be simulated universes all the way down as each simulated universe creates its own simulated universe, so the chances are that we are a simulated universe - so the argument goes. Here’s the problem with the simulation hypothesis: If we are a simulated universe then the chances should be that we ourselves would have created a simulated universe as there would be an order of magnitude number of simulated universes, of which we are just one. But, we aren’t advanced enough to create a simulated universe, so therefore we are the very last simulation created…what are the chances of that - statistically almost impossible. The other option is that we are the very first civilisation to exist.
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I like that Nick is a very original thinker.
00:01 The likelihood of achieving superintelligence is very high.
02:23 Effective accelerationism philosophy in Silicon Valley
06:52 AI shaping the future and the challenges of activism
09:20 The risks of existential risks and the immediate impact of AI on society are worth worrying about.
14:08 Exploring a world where all practical problems are solved
16:26 Achieving fulfillment and purpose through AI-managed maintenance and psychological engineering techniques.
20:20 From post-scarcity to post-work Utopia
22:08 Super Advanced automation technology could lead to a plastic Utopia where we have complete control over our bodies and minds.
26:04 Reimagining human existence in a transformed world
27:52 Human nature is not ready for a perfect world due to evolution under scarcity
31:47 Seeking to enhance human capabilities for a fulfilling future.
33:49 Exploring the possibility of escaping a simulation with superintelligence.
Crafted by Merlin AI.
I enjoyed this conversation ❤
Thank you for listening!
Awesome.
How many of us actually believe that what we spend wost of our time on is worth doing? Not logically, like yeah of course when I was loading and unloading trucks all day, sure it's worth doing so people get their stuff in the mail... I wish I could feel a real sense of meaning and contribution from that, but that's not how my brain works. I've tried to turn the entire job into a meditative practice which helped for a while, but when the company just cycles through casuals that work their buts off, get sick, get hurt, and quit, that's hard man. They intentionally decreased our hours from 8 per day to 5 to make us more productive and force us to come in more often to make the same money. Rough when you're not getting healthcare you need and everything costs a fortune. I'm just worried because every time humans invent something that increases productivity and automation work just becomes more demanding if you can even get work.
Bingo, you have seen the absolute correlation of massive increase of productivity over the last several decades with increased technology, yet wages adjusted for inflation are lower than they were in the 70s.
AI will make what is already historic inequality in the US, much much much worse.
But the 'window of time' through which we view progress and evolution of any type of system is critically important to actually understanding it. That isn't to deny your experience or the fact of inequality in the current economic paradigm. In essence, one needs an expandable and contractable window, width expansion opens up the time scale, height expansion allows more data in.
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If a civilisation is advanced enough to make a simulated universe, then there should be simulated universes all the way down as each simulated universe creates its own simulated universe, so the chances are that we are a simulated universe - so the argument goes.
Here’s the problem with the simulation hypothesis:
If we are a simulated universe then the chances should be that we ourselves would have created a simulated universe as there would be an order of magnitude number of simulated universes, of which we are just one. But, we aren’t advanced enough to create a simulated universe, so therefore we are the very last simulation created…what are the chances of that - statistically almost impossible. The other option is that we are the very first civilisation to exist.
The whole simulated universe thing is just so much hooey.
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