The Biggest Event in Human History
The Reith Lectures
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How Should the World Be Arranged?
Economics is a very hard problem, in many ways harder than physics and chemistry. How do you tell whether a decision is a good or a bad decision when it's being made on behalf of the human race? And that's something that philosophers have grappled with for thousands of years. I was interested in the language and vocabulary of human intellectual life that seems to run around ai. But i think an earlier questioner used the word wisdom, which i've not heard so much around this debate. Is wisdom exactly the thing that we have to keep a monopoly on as is that a purely human characteristic, do you think?
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