DarkHorse Podcast What AI Will Do to Humanity: Forrest Maready on DarkHorse
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Aug 27, 2025 
Forrest Maready is an insightful author and researcher with a keen focus on science and technology. He dives into the dual nature of AI, weighing both its risks and benefits, and how it shapes our understanding of truth and human identity. The conversation delves into technology's impact on human relationships and cognitive development, urging a balance between progress and essence. Maready also highlights ethical dilemmas posed by AI, such as creating digital avatars, while emphasizing the need for epistemic humility in this rapidly evolving landscape.
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Alleviating Suffering Undermines Growth
- Technology's central function is to alleviate suffering by saving time and cognitive effort.
- That same alleviation can undermine the developmental suffering that produces human flourishing.
Suffering As A Source Of Meaning
- Suffering acts as a teacher and builder of meaning and wisdom.
- Eliminating suffering wholesale risks eroding purpose and meaningful human development.
The Perils Of Eliminating Scarcity
- AI could remove scarcity of time and death-like constraints, producing harms like loss of meaning.
- Immortality or perfect delay of consequences would collapse incentives that structure human life.
