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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Is There a Meta Perverse Incentive to Advance New Technologies?

An ecological economist would say that GDP counts the goods but doesn't include the bads. If I emphasize for this AI what the amazing opportunity is it's going to allow us to do protein folding stuff that will solve cancer, then of course everybody wants us to move as fast as possible because people are going to have family members that have cancer and we're going to make a lot of profit associated with solving some real legitimate problems. But if we focus on the risk side too much, yeah but if we can apply this to protein folding that can solve cancer is this also going to be used for bio-weapons that intentionally or even via lab leaks having created those monstrous things end up wiping out everybody

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