Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
The Secret of Our Success
The secret of our success, by joseph heinrich yeit explains cultural evolution in human history. It ends up justifying, or am doing, apologetics, for people just copying even if they can't understand what's going on. So it seems like tradition is obviously far more value in a world that's more stable. And i think, you know, it points to the fact that human priors are pretty well tuned,. They fail in this particular case only because it's a laboratory study and the demonstrator is deliberately doing something pointless, essentially to trick them.
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