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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Chesterton's Finse's

There's a thought experiment in philosophy that says called Chesterton's Finse, which is there's a fence up. And before you take the fucking fence down, you better make sure you actually understand why it was put up. So value sets are as bad as narrow goals, they're a part of it. The traditional impulse basically says, I think there were a lot of wise people for a long time who thought about some of these things more deeply than I have. They wouldn't have made it through if they weren't successful, didn't work and likely the total amount of embedded intelligence in them is more than I've thought about this thing. That's the without knowing intuition. We

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