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Our dopamine economy, or what historian David Courtwright has called “limbic capitalism,” is driving this change, aided by transformational technology that has increased not just access but also drug numbers, variety, and potency.

The tipoff to

the nature of the AI societal risk claim is its own term, “AI alignment”. Alignment with what? Human values. Whose human values? Ah, that’s where things get tricky.

When's the last time you watched something other than a screen for that long without checking your phone?

But you’ll notice

what I slipped in there – I said we should focus first on preventing AI-assisted crimes before they happen – wouldn’t such prevention mean banning AI? Well, there’s another way to prevent such actions, and that’s by using AI as a defensive tool . The same capabilities that make AI dangerous in the hands of bad guys with bad goals... See more

If only the internet was a thing, it would have been tempting to bleed off the anxiety, and swoon into an infinite doomscroll.

The only way

out, I believe, is to make big hard decisions that make all of the little ones for me.

Like switching your

phone. I can’t win against the iPhone but I can simply not play. And that’s powerful.