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Crazy Wisdom

How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? - Woody Wiegmann

Feb 20, 2023
54:17

Woody Wiegmann

https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann

What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency?

  1. What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do?

    1. Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual

  2. Are there going to be business moats around AI?

  3. How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower?

  4. The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean?

  5. What is the importance of status games in human relationships?

  6. What is Keynesian beauty/stock dynamics?

  7. Is there a ground truth?

  8. What is the relationship between gossip and myths for what both for tribes and meta-tribes?

  9. What is trend on vices that represent escapism?

    1. In what ways is Twitter escapism?

  10. What happens when a bureaucracy tries to intervene?

  11. What happens when bureaucracies clash with the uncertainty of the implications of AI?

  12. What is humanity going through in terms of its faith in the expert class?

  13. Where does credit go when you have low-interest rates and the government pumps trillions of monopoly money into the system?

  14. What are the negative externalities of corporations consolidating?

  15. What is the relationship between monopoly money injected into the economy and finding consensus among humans?

  16. What happens when AGI becomes the deity?

    1. What happens when the market becomes God?

  17. What is the importance of optics? Can you be authentic when concerned with optics?

  18. How does anti-trust law get it wrong?

  19. Can we have decentralized anti-trust law?

  20. How is the brain built off redundant systems?

  21. What is your take on transhumanism?

 

Books mentioned:

Seveneves: https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B00LZWV8JO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Rare Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe-ebook/dp/B00L60PP0I/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=V3UGRDR27PTV&keywords=rare+earth&qid=1676913897&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+earth%2Cdigital-text%2C185&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySUg5NjgyRlBBQ0hJJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjIyOTI0MkE1QlExN0xCM1NRRyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDMxNjY0MTczTkU0VDdSQkpPMSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

 

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