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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There a Way to Do Futurism Better?

Much of futurism, in my experience, has a distinct flavor of unreality. The concepts mind uplows don't o, technology settlement and anager to capture in space are meaningful even if loosely defined. But at a certain point, one's modelas become so abstracted and incomplete that the sense of talking about a real thing is lost. I recently interviewed somewaty herot ta book about the napoleonic war. It's hard for me to think bout ab ill. Take me a few more weeks before i can digestid fully.

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