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Steve Jurvetson on Twitter / X
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.)
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Opinion | If A.I. Takes All Our Jobs, Will It Also Take Our Purpose?
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.)

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Opinion | If A.I. Takes All Our Jobs, Will It Also Take Our Purpose?