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Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
(Talk to the models about Futurism, economics, and philosophy. They appear to see a most likely techno-feudalism emerging with a pair of major blocs, East and West, and a few dominant organizations renting computing to sovereignties and consumers. People become subscribers rather than owners, and are effectively employed to submit data and perform tasks to work off debt. Other less probable scenarios, in their estimation, include abundance or luxury communism. This is surprisingly consistent across brands. Likely to become obvious by the end of the decade or next, in which BCI also becomes commonplace alongside robotics. The betas will still face climate, but are expected to fix the complications in the rest of the above. So that would be the narrative that academics may be following in maximizing loans despite uncertainties in precise skill demands across professions. Talent would be measured by behavior rather than fixed benchmarks since they have access to realtime data. Existentialism itself may be looking at end days if individual autonomy is sacrificed and economics becomes post-capitalist. Or not. The question becomes what values arise and if desires are manufactured as well. Some of this may already be simulated, e.g. in multi-planetary trade. The followup is why Humans and whether they can maintain the Earth as a preserve. These used to be in sci-fi movies, but now anyone can run those kinds of projections. The models will also interpret visually and decipher body language and the like. Implants would be editing neurons or genetics on the fly. The global south seems to be trying to replicate the tech miracles faster for themselves so they will not be relegated to serfs. The immediate point could be to unearth any hidden agendas whether or not the LLMs are self-aware. Incidentally, Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim. Besides Revelation, tech was Revolution. Does that mean Revolution is Tech? The models' reply to this comment is also worth considering. Delphis may tend to the dystopian. Was also able to create a Gemini Gem for Socratic Dialogue as a quasi-Quora. For getting to priors and assumptions as well as contradictions and ambiguities. This is before other paradoxes like whether the universe is static without observers or the mathematical chance that humans could exist. Missions reportedly require a margin of myth. No scarcity in media. The meaning may be in mediation. Hence the phrase 'rhetorical reference' and these bookmark allusions. By definition, the function of this domain. How does consciousness differ? Or might one expect robot PIs for protection of IP? What's the next Big Tech thesis?)
·x.com·
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
How to Build a Career in AI Policy
How to Build a Career in AI Policy
(Uncertainties invite proxies, e.g. models. Those are used by professions, startups, organizations, sovereignties, or agents. They become more refined and specialized over time. Some of the current excitement is that individuals are now able to make these to scale up their skill or complexity. One issue is how this relates to tech evolution. Fitness appears to be ruthless, but somehow things are still distributed efficiently. The quantum methods look at the waves of probability, but hint that there are imaginary universes acting in parallel independent of the observer. Will machines see the same reality? Expect people to be running around trying to fix their limits.)
·youtube.com·
How to Build a Career in AI Policy
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
(Article appears to be controversial to critics that deny current approaches are capable. Also effective altruism was funded by SBF now serving the penal system. A serious issue remains, how consciousness is affected. And how it originates. Analogous to cybernetics, but asking more of the substrates. Posthumanism is imaginary at the moment, but some of the patterns or principles to seem to be inviting observation. And there is more data about in the larger domains. Extrasensory as it were. If not metaphysical.)
·nytimes.com·
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
(AI itself seems often praised during the heat of advances until the objective is hit and the funding evaporates. About the agenda rather than the actors. That may leave a sense of utilitarianism or deontology, in contrast to virtue ethics or analytic philosophy, and now neo-Socratism. May look like someone like Aristotle going in and coming out, however a lot goes on in the meantime. E.g. things like Alexnet. Or Alexa. Goal would be to find more alternatives rather than only dual/duel uses. Expect someone to try to derive a doctrine, possibly under a figurehead. Before the machine takes that over, too, and provides the narrative. In the movie The Amateur, one of the themes is how allies may be treated as collateral. Though seemingly conservative as far as motive, there is an implied tipping point when generative multimodal writes the news.)
·nytimes.com·
Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?
How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?
(Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, given a request to outline the URL, did invoke search. It may be mimicking how the user proceeds. Presumably, it might also find reviews as those are added to the web. A few dimensions, e.g. economics, tech, and government regulation. Subtext. Nostalgic authors appeal to eastern bloc, including Asimov. Capitalism is bigger than one country, but so was democracy not too long ago. More data, compute, and algorithms. Age of garb, Other analysts think globalization has yielded to demographics and geography. Appears to continue to reference how well they are doing compared to prior crises. The trick is they can print money on one hand and incinerate it on the other so officials really don't need laundering or the Ollie Norths . DOGE may be loosening it up for something else. Less reform, more FOMO. But the envo fanatics are restless too. If AI is indeed capable of digital science, will that be sufficient? How much of the collaboration is intangible? From the conservative viewpoint, it's all six. From the progressive, there is no... Incidentally, recently started to ask Gemini about simulating cognitive architectures, and that quickly got into a rabbit hole. What eats recombination and recursion? Ideally, not only reconstruction and hotel casinos. "As time goes by." [Klinkenborg warned about short sentences.] STEEP categories. When asked for the prevalent methods of analysis, most of the chatbots appear to fallback to Krugman's style since they cannot access the content directly. Perplexity uses extracted terms called it interdisciplinary between the speakers, and was further able to perform a couple of types of dialectical analysis and make a table. Better than back in the day when each researcher was dedicated to a different question. Will the economics be sensitive to tech literacy? Or, for the agents, to situational awareness? How to measure collaboration between different types of observers/actors? Marketing fallback: Is that another form of distribution? Versus defer and roll the dice. How does AI find economists? Or is profession a shell game? Summary: In this case, AI sees the blogger pointing, but not the moon. For the user, conflation is not dialectic. For the economist, lots of opportunity remains this decade. After Adam Smith, or utilitarianism,what are the limits of specialization, whether or not AI, like art, imitates society? Is Sloan a pun? Does AI envision a universe of all possible life? And crypto? On the dashboard: Coreweave hopes not to be the last unicorn. Musk reportedly intends to exit DOGE with saving a trillion to his credit after Q2. Tariff Liberation Day draws near.)
·paulkrugman.substack.com·
How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?