From the New World

Samuel Hammond: AI Revolution - Visible and Invisible

Jan 9, 2023

03:09:35

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AI, Robotic AI, It's Tacit Knowledge

04:06

The Transition From Con to Hegel

01:47

Is There a Future for Social Animals?

02:51

Introduction

3min

Will the Future Be More or Less Religious?

6min

Is AI a Communist, Crypto a Libertarian?

3min

Quantity, the Multitude, the Mass Spirit

4min

Is the Cost of Producing a Text a Good Thing?

4min

Is This Getting Democratized?

4min

Chat GPT, Is It Good for Humanity?

3min

Is There Going to Be Much More Decentralization?

6min

Is There a Need for Machine Learning Tools?

2min

10.

AI and Transhumanism - What's Interesting About This?

2min

11.

Are There More Phase Transitions in AI?

4min

12.

Is What's Happening With AI and Communication Technology?

2min

13.

The Left Tail of the Distribution Will Be Pulled to the Median.

3min

14.

The Grant Critique Is Anachronistic

3min

15.

Canadian Culture, Right?

6min

16.

Is There a Future for Social Animals?

3min

17.

The Horse List Carriage

3min

18.

The Horse Is Carriage Policy Is Just That, It's a Terror in Parabas

2min

19.

Is There a Future in Education?

3min

20.

The Mormon Church, the LDS Church, Is Incredibly Decentralized.

2min

21.

Is There a Will to Cooperate Materially With Mormons?

4min

22.

Is AI Going to Change Bureaucracy?

4min

23.

How to Build Countervailing Technologies for Speeding Ticket Submissions

2min

24.

How Did the Power Grid Expected by This Ransomware Attack?

2min

25.

Is There a Barrier to Entry?

3min

26.

Do You Think AI Technologies Are Going to Influence the Public Sector?

2min

27.

Is AI a Forcing Function to Broad Based Institutional Reform?

3min

28.

The Political Incentives Are Warped, Right?

2min

29.

Is There a Difference in Kind When It's This Obvious?

2min

30.

The Double Is Due, Right?

2min

31.

California Is a Red State, Right?

3min

32.

The Bombal Effect of Artificial Intelligence

4min

33.

Does It Enable Impartial Judgment or Does It Organise Society Around It?

2min

34.

The Journalism Case, the Journalism Case.

4min

35.

Is There a State Monopoly for Infant Formula?

3min

36.

Transaction Cost Analysis

2min

37.

Is This a White Pill on Bureaucracy?

2min

38.

Is China the Country With the Poorest Chinese People?

3min

39.

Decentralized Authority Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism

2min

40.

The Chinese Real Estate Market Is Totally Overproduced, Right?

2min

41.

The Most Bullish Case for China

5min

42.

The Biggest Bull Case for China

2min

43.

AI, Robotic AI, It's Tacit Knowledge

4min

44.

The Ethic of Authenticity in AI

3min

45.

Gene Editing

2min

46.

What's Funny About the New Left?

3min

47.

Are We Mostly Going to Let Let People Compete?

2min

48.

GPT Three Is Going to Really Empower Polymath Podcast Listeners

4min

49.

Are You Trying to Change the Narrative?

2min

50.

Is Rationality a Good Predictor of People's Decision Making?

4min

51.

The Transition From Con to Hegel

2min

52.

Is Conformity a Problem?

2min

53.

Social Media and the COVID Bureaucracy

3min

54.

The Right Wing Epistemic Order?

5min

55.

Is There a Right Wing Intellectual Scene in East Asia?

2min

56.

The One Condition to Being a Populist Is Opposing the Existing Order.

3min

57.

Is Competency a Strategy?

2min

58.

Is There a Legitimate Order?

4min

59.

Is the Child Tax Credit a Good Idea?

4min

60.

The Problem With American Patronage

2min

61.

Conservative Journalists Aren't Paying Well, Right?

3min

62.

What Is Too Much Chaos and Not Enough Order?

5min

63.

Subscribing to Substack Is a Great Way to Support the Podcast

2min

Samuel Hammond is the director of social policy at the Niskanen center and the author of the Second Best newsletter. We discuss religion, Peter Thiel, artificial intelligence, critical theory, industrial policy, Georgism, resource scarcity, bureaucracy, prisoner’s dilemmas, care work, and Canada.

https://secondbest.ca/

Samuel at Niskanen:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/samuel-hammond/

Samuel on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/hamandcheese

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