Making friends with your past and future selves
"Most recently, a new program called Future You, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offers young people a chance to chat with an online, AI-generated simulation of themselves at age 60. A recent study of 344 participants found that users who interacted with their future selves reported 'increased future self-continuity' and, perhaps as a consequence, significantly less anxiety, compared with those who did not."
Most recently, a new program called Future You, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offers young people a chance to chat with an online, AI-generated simulation of themselves at age 60. A recent study of 344 participants found that users who interacted with their future selves reported “increased future self-continuity” and, perhaps as a consequence, significantly less anxiety, compared with those who did not.
Group 1 | Robust International Coordination Mechanisms @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop 2024
(Actually tricky since Big Tech is already not distributing models on some continents because of regulations there, or is sanctioning hardware sales. The innovation argument persists. So training is significant if the new waves are to find opportunities. In any case, democracy if not capitalism was supposed to proceed from the ground up rather than top-down like socialist or communist media. The internet is an interesting precedent that AI may exploit. However other analyses have not yet found a solution to inequality. Hence references to Marxist predictions about automation. These seminars do appear to appeal to competition for ideas on cooperation, so they fit evolution. Still, will it be determinism or discovered domains? Or yet another port of doom.
"a licence not to" -- Mallory to C, Spectre.
Then again, tell it to Double Who.)
Steve Jurvetson on Twitter / X
(You have to wonder about the author's objectives here, e.g. addressing the risk of Doomers as an extreme example who used it as motivation for other things. Now they can return to their regularly scheduled horror stories. Back in the day, a lifeguard would loosen the stranglehold a desperate swimmer had on them by diving so they could swap positions and carry them safely to shore. But this may also be a pun on Chomsky like machine learning itself. Newport, on the other hand, might drag them off the beach entirely. Or in terms of mathematical philosophers, DFW would have nth-order footnotes. Bostrum, Wolfram, have you ever seen them together? FLI had simply argued for a halt. Toss in etiology, and brevity is history. So, it appears to be a Monty Python API. Hanson begrudgingly on the Muppets. Sandberg ahead.)
Opinion | If A.I. Takes All Our Jobs, Will It Also Take Our Purpose?
He likened the book to a particle accelerator that smashes atoms together to study their parts, such as quarks. In “Deep Utopia,” he said, he smashed values into one another to study their composition.
(The author also spreads the topics across a week. Each day, they go through sentiment, logic, and symbolism. So it may be mimicking how the parts of a brain do interpretation. Or that could be the journaling routine. As mnemonic for both self and reader.)
Greg Brockman on X: "One challenge with predicting the impact of a future technology is anticipating how the world will change in the interim. Describing Uber before the Internet, smartphones, and GPS seems quite hard—and yet for advanced AI we must. Fortunately, lots to learn from recent progress." / X