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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Risks of AI in the Meta-Crisis Landscape

AI is not a risk within the meta-crisis. It is an accelerant to all of them. As we take the intelligence that has driven these problems, unbound by wisdom, and we exponentialize that kind of intelligence, we get to see whoa, superintelligence is really fucking potent. What goals are worth optimizing with that much power? With something that's a trillion, trillion times smarter and faster than humans, what Goals are worth optimizing? And so as super intelligence shows us how dangerous narrow optimization is, it even shows us our own intelligence via things like markets. The market makes the general intelligence of humans do those in groups. So the cybernetic intelligence of corporations and nation

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