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Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology

From the New World

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The Enlightenment Buffer Self Man, Please Manage the Loan in the Universe

The rationalist community was the sort of seabed for existential terror about artificial intelligence. We already negotiate with these systems in a way, and we've seeded a fair amount of sovereignty in our cognitive space. So encountering a system of elite intelligence that he had to negotiate with would be weird. And I think that I think that you look back at all the warnings embedded in how we thought about magic and you can apply many of them to technology.

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