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Future Superhuman w/ Elise Bohan
FUTURES Podcast
The Importance of Acceleration in AI Safety
I think it's dubious that we're really in control of either. When we signal boost the idea of who's deciding what the future is, I think that gives humanity way too much credit. We know that it's microbes, plate tectonics and domesticable crops that have determined so much of the course of history over time. It wasn't like all of our hunter-gatherer ancestors sat down and they were like, right, see those crops over there. What do we collect the seeds? Instead of being nomadic, we'll be sedentary. And some guy was really trying to sell it to them and get them on board. They did it because their environment changed, their
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