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Once unfriendly superintelligence exists, it would prevent us from replacing it or changing its preferences. Our fate would be sealed.
“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“As bitcoin approaches infinite stock to flow ratio it will be the soundest money in existence. Infinite soundness is hard to beat.”
― 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
― 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
“When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of our concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“What does it mean to call for a “democratic” solution if you don’t have a conflict-resolution mechanism in mind?
I think it means that you have said the word “democracy,” so the audience is supposed to cheer. It’s not so much a propositional statement, as the equivalent of the “Applause” light that tells a studio audience when to clap.”
― Rationality: From AI to Zombies
I think it means that you have said the word “democracy,” so the audience is supposed to cheer. It’s not so much a propositional statement, as the equivalent of the “Applause” light that tells a studio audience when to clap.”
― Rationality: From AI to Zombies
“School began as an institution that rescued young people from degrading labor. Now schools are the perpetuators of degrading labor.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
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