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I'm attending a Cosmos Institute seminar on the intersection of AI human agency, and collective intelligence, a topic very dear to my heart. Here are some thoughts.

What did the “claude boys” do today during the outage Who gave them guidance

Great first sessions at Edge Esmeralda today kicking off @Cosmos_Inst 4-day intensive on AI for truth-seeking. 40+ builders exploring the "philosophy-to-code" paradigm alongside philosophers and AI researchers from HAI Lab. Come by if you're around!!

Some topics we covered: - will humans will be like fleshy adjuncts to AI politicians? - would the Soviet experiment have succeeded with better computers? - is “autocomplete for life” is a threat to democracy? - are builders vs policymakers in a better position for AI

Philosophers as Taylor Swift Songs (in honor of Taylor’s reclaimed property rights) Plato--Daylight Kant--You're On Your Own Kid Camus--August Aristotle--So High School (obvs) Kierkegaard--Back to December Nietzsche--Treacherous Socrates--Tell Me Why JP Sartre--Chloe or Sam or

tylercowen thinks AI may demoralize us. That’s not what I’m seeing with my kids. But I DO think AI could make us into NPCs if we use it as an “autocomplete for life.”

My career philosophy: make it a sustained protest against the possibility of living one life. As EO Wilson said, “specialization is for ants.”

AI as the whispering earring

Taking every chance to talk about Cameron McCord behind his back at Reagan National Economic Forum

Philosophers as Taylor Swift songs Descartes - labyrinth Bentham - Look what you made me do Locke - Mine / Dear John Mill - You’re on your own kid Tolstoy - exile Adam Smith - champagne problems Sartre - Karma

If you wanted a personal agent that was truth seeking and actually pushed you to improve your beliefs, notice your biases, and keep you cognitively healthy without necessarily being overly ideological - how would you evaluate that?

If “ChatGPT” had 2 syllabus, I bet it would have been the next “google” or “xerox.” What’s the verb?