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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Effect of Technology on the Memeplex

The Amish aren't idiots. They're not asinine. There's a reason why they do what they do, and they either explicitly or intuitively understand that the technology changes the social dynamics in the way that they view the world. Not all of Buddhism got picked up everywhere, right? Like the parts that had to do with why people should take vows of poverty and live on very little. That didn't really get picked up. And so you are right to say that it's not that they have no influence. But one does not want to be naive about how much influence that's going to have. So there's a naive techno optimism that doesn't pay enough attention to that

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