David Wheeler: I read your recent essay on AI and AGI and Pathways to AGI. We also fed that essay to some transformer or neural networks that run behind Grace the robot to see what questions she would come up with based on that. But I actually was curious to start somewhere else which has an indirect but thoroughly comparable connection toAI and AGI. One of your works that the biggest impact on me was the Transparent Society a number of years ago. So I'm curious to see sort of how do you view the faces of the Transparent society now in 2022? And I mean how do you see the present and the future in terms of the panopticon and so forth
Our special guest for the first episode of the Mindplex Podcast is David Brin, a scientist and science fiction author of more than 35 books over the last 40 years. His PhD in astrophysics from the University of California at San Diego led to his current involvement with NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC).
5. From David: "Okay this one is purely political, trying to get Democrats to try new tactics in phase 8 of the US Civil War: Polemical Judo, by David Brin: http://www.davidbrin.com/polemicaljudo.html