Strange and wondrous events take place with every turn of the page in Pep Carrió’s continuing daily diary series.
Strange and wondrous events take place with every turn of the page in Pep Carrió’s continuing daily diary series (previously). In 2007, the artist challenged himself to draw every day, and an easy way to keep himself both motivated and accountable was to fill up an entire Moleskine datebook. With whatever materials were at hand, he began a project that kept his creative wheels turning while challenging the possibilities of a simple two-page spread. […]
What would life look like in a fully automated world? How would we derive meaning in a world of superintelligence?
Today’s Win-Win episode is all about utopias, dystopias and thought experiments, because I’m talking to Professor Nick Bostrom. Nick is one of the world’s leading philosophers – he’s a leading thinker on the nature of consciousness, AI, catastrophic risks, cosmology… he’s also the guy behind the Simulation Hypothesis, the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, the seminal AI book Superintelligence, …he even inspired this video of mine!
Chapters
0:00 – Intro
01:42 – Why shift focus to Utopia?
03:31 – Different types of Utopias
11:40 – How to find purpose in a solved world?
18:31 – Potential Limits to Technology
22:34 – How would Utopians approach Competition?
30:24 – Superintelligence
34:39 – Vulnerable World Hypothesis
39:48 – Thinking in Superpositions
41:24 – Solutions to the Vulnerable World?
46:34 – Aligning Markets to Defensive Tech
48:43 – Digital Minds & Uploading
52:25 – Consciousness & AI
55:08 – Outro
The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.
Watch the previous episode with TED founder Chris Anderson here:
• Chris Anderson | The Power of Infecti…
Credits
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree & Igor Kurganov
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt
Still reeling from seeing my first solar eclipse in all its awe-inspiring totality. A moment I will never forget. Happy eclipse day to my fellow North Americans who looked up yesterday!
Kassondra is an autistic woman who was not diagnosed until adulthood. As a child, she was misdiagnosed as bipolar and wrongfully medicated for a decade. This caused her to become withdrawn and isolated. After receiving the proper diagnosis, Kassondra is now learning to love and accept her autistic self.
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A channel Kassondra highly recommends about tapering off meds:
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