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Three political positions that I think are severely underrated given the development of AGI:
1. @nathancofnas’ “hereditarian revolution” - the idea that the intellectual dominance of left-wing egalitarianism relies on group cognitive differences being taboo - is already very important.
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Richard Ngox.comHumanity in the Age of AI
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Robert Prevost aka Pope Leo XIV immediately after his election went viral for his rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience.
"We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". He... See more
A couple thoughts on Ellison's comments:
Rates of cancer - and nearly every other chronic disease - are going up among kids because we are poisoning them. Not because we don't have enough drugs.
In his inauguration speech, President Trump swore to "end the chronic disease epidemic and keep... See more
Science and technology have magnified the destructive impact that the dysfunction of the human mind has upon the planet, other life-forms, and upon humans themselves.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
Rather, after a simulation is run a thousand or a million times, such models show policy makers the range of possible futures and their relative probabilities if policies remain unchanged. Then, by altering policies in the model and running them another million times, we might begin to understand paths to better futures.