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Robert Wright’s *The God Test*

The subtitle is Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, due out June 23. In the first chapter, Wright summarizes four of his perspectives, these are my paraphrases of his pp.5-6: 1. When it comes to AI, we should be somewhere on the awe spectrum. 2. We can create a future where the upside of […] The post Robert Wright’s The God Test appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIt looks like LLMs will transform business. However, if we get . by bazzaWhat does this even mea...

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Ross Douthat on what AI money should learn from the golden age of philanthropy

This was a great failure of the most recent philanthropic era. At its best, the infrastructure established by figures like Gates delivered effective efforts to reduce poverty and fight disease; at its worst, it threw money after fashionable political causes and education fads. But there was no real legacy when it came to physical infrastructure […] The post Ross Douthat on what AI money should learn from the golden age of philanthropy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsI was not a...

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