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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Dwarkesh Podcast

CHAPTER

The Concreteness of Futurism

Futurism is about trying to imagine the future, but not knowing how it will turn out. In a book on meth use by soldiers in North Korea, there's an idea of "the concrete reality when you'ro yet, when you're don't in stemo abstrac tio e" The author says futurism can be dangerous because we cannot specify what would happen if things happened today.

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