
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)
A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast
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Paperclip Maximizer in Artificial Intelligence
The idea of a paperclip maximizer is already happening with what we call machine learning artificial intelligence. And so we see that just using Facebook as an example here, people who are on the left and right of a political spectrum have been shown to increase the radicalization of their view because from using Facebook. The stuff that scares them and makes them angry and that they share because they're scared and angry is stickier and ends up being more viral. We can think of capitalism as the center of kind of in group, out group competing against each other in a rivalrous way but nationalism and all forms of power structures are too.
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