Sana AI conference inspo bits
This ethic carries over into Cowen’s analogy of AI as a creature to be trained. Not commanded, trained. Like a dog. Or perhaps more precisely, like a horse: intelligent, responsive, but fundamentally other. The human role is not to dominate but to guide, to shape through repetition, observation, and subtle correction. This, Cowen implies, is the ne... See more
There are much broader re-imaginings that may need to happen, and soon: how we live, and what we share, and what we consider a “successful” life for our kids. I think these shifts will be painful and joyful in equal measure.
Rosie Spinks • Everyone I Know Is Worried About Work
It means recognising that in a world where everything can be quantified, the unquantifiable becomes precious.
It means respecting intuition as a legitimate intelligence – not just some romantic notion, but a sophisticated pattern-recognition system honed over millennia of human evolution.
It means respecting intuition as a legitimate intelligence – not just some romantic notion, but a sophisticated pattern-recognition system honed over millennia of human evolution.
Zoe Scaman • Primal Intelligence
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sig
answers are now insanely cheap
when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more