"By zigzagging, we’re not climbing a ladder—we’re spinning a career web, one that can extend infinitely in any direction, with many options for development and progress. It isn’t just more exciting and interesting than the alternative. It also opens us up to a world of possibilities that might have otherwise remained impossibly out of reach. By the way: It’s way less roundabout and indirect than it may seem."
"In this paper, we have asked: what motivates those who aspire to build AGI — a system, which, although it does not have one definition even among those who claim to be building it, seems to be an all-knowing machine akin to a “god”? The answer is that the current push for AGI is driven by a set of ideologies which we label the “second wave” of eugenics."
"every age has its delusions and every cause its traitors. But the danger here is radical. Our leaders themselves are bemused; so that treachery can pass unnoticed and even think itself fidelity”... Dingle argued that it is we who must decide what is “proper”—to “deduce particular conclusions from a priori general principles or derive general principles from observations?... whether the foundation of science shall be observation or invention”
By understanding how identity attestations are positioned across the spectrum of decentralization, we can better grasp their costs/benefits. Improving and integrating them into our interactions with the digital sphere will help protect democratic systems from AI-generated harm.”
"corroborate previous findings in the Americas of cultural evidence that dates to the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500–19,000 years ago)18, and which push back dates for human dispersal to the region possibly as early as 33,000–31,000 years ago."
“They could flame and troll with a fearlessness that was harder to get away with under the material coercion of the state, or the physical consequences of talking when you were supposed to be listening. Without the oddly providential cyberlibertarian vision to give a reason for good behavior, cyberspace looked a lot more like the history of civilization than it did an unencumbered new chapter.”