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Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· 3d

Interesting comment from Wei Dai on the gap between intelligence and wisdom: www.lesswrong.com/posts/HbkNAy...

Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· 4d

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Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· 8d

Alright team. What do we think of this redesign?

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Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· 26d

The latest release of hashcards has a review heatmap so you can visualize how many cards you're drilling every day 😺 github.com/eudoxia0/has...

Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· Jun 26

New post: superintelligent AI won't just lead to a "permanent underclass" but to the disempowerment of all humans. borretti.me/article/no-o...

A screenshot of the first two paragraphs of the linked post. The title is "No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass". The text below reads: Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at which point there is no social mobility. The main way people cope is, they tell themselves: if I work hard, accumulate capital, maybe join one of the big AI labs, I might secure my place in the future.

I want to argue this is a fantastically short-sighted view: if there is a permanent underclass, you won’t escape it by owning property, or shares in Anthropic or OpenAI, or guns, or anything else. And neither will the billionaires. You, me, Sam Altman, Dario, everyone who is made of flesh and blood, will be disempowered and replaced by machines.

Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· Jun 23

borretti.me/article/on-v...

Screenshot of the text: In fiction—if you think this is a valid way to sense the cultural consensus—the trope of the evil corporation has been done to death and beyond. Just this week I finished a novel and watched a movie where the central bad guys are private corporations with quasi-state powers. Seemingly no-one notices that never, not once in all of human history, has there been anything like “corporate state” of science fiction. No, not the VoC or the EIC, which were “companies” in the sense of bodies corporate, the old medieval sense of the word: power was delegated to them, and they ruled on behalf of the states that chartered them. Not Venice either: you couldn’t buy your way into the Golden Book until the republic was well into the decline. The EIC once controlled 25% of world GDP, yet, when Parliament decided it had delegated too much power, they simply neutered it. And you think Jeff Bezos has power?

Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· Jun 19

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Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· Jun 12

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Fernando 🌺🌌@eudoxia· Jun 8

Interesting (to me, at least) connection: Leonid Pasternak (father of Boris, author of Doctor Zhivago) painted the only known portrait of Nikolai Fedorov.