Mary Martin

In other words, rather than trying to please humans, Scientist AI could be designed to prioritize honesty.

While early tech leaders hoped to liberate humanity from hierarchical governments, their products instead multiplied the available channels for exerting control.

Power is making one description seem more real or natural than others.

A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services

The more you build your self-conception

on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity

by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what

you really are.

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and that we’re central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we’ll never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we’ll keep defaulting to a view of nature as something to gain... See more

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