Future & Ethics
Questions about what’s next
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Future & Ethics
Being a cozy futurist is being aware that even when indubitably science & technology are cool, we can't forget about the lives of the users of said technology; the goal is a nice future, not just a technically advanced future.
José Luis Ricón (Artir) • Cozy futurism
There is a growing desire among Gen Z to reclaim their autonomy from their phones and remove themselves from what Shaz describes as a passive state of being. Last year, anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm predicted that abstention would be the next big thing. On X, she wrote: “I’m calling it right now, abstention is the new big thing;... See more
Halima Jibril • Why some young people are ‘quitting’ music
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
What is the purpose of technology?
It is to enable more people to have more ideas and experiences in order to expand the universe.
Given that, it is a cosmic imperative to build, to create, to travel beyond the earth and spread human consciousness throughout the universe so that the Universal Consciousness can better know itself.
We have an imperative... See more
It is to enable more people to have more ideas and experiences in order to expand the universe.
Given that, it is a cosmic imperative to build, to create, to travel beyond the earth and spread human consciousness throughout the universe so that the Universal Consciousness can better know itself.
We have an imperative... See more
Conversation at MIT in 1953:
Marvin Minsky, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!"
Doug Engelbart replied, "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?"
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
as AI automates the "have to dos," we'll unlock more time for the "get to dos"
bullish on people building companies optimizing for joy, creativity, and meaningful experiences vs. just solving life's annoying tasks
sari azoutx.comThe question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not... See more
Resistance does not... See more