Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Are AIs getting smarter faster than we are getting dumber? Will they lift us to higher plane of human evolution, or send killer robots to terminate us? It is becoming increasing clear that futurists of the past were very bad at predicting what AIs would be good at. Here are a few observations on how the battle for reality might go during the rise of the machines.
Additional Materials:
• Scott Alexander's article "Perhaps it is a bad thing that AI companies cannot control their AIs (astralcodexten.substack.com/p/perhaps-it-is-a-bad-thing-that-the) "
• No Dumb Questions Podcast episode about ChatGPT (https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2022/12/9/147-can-ai-fool-you-a-convo-with-chatgpt)
• Photo retouching and historical alterations in Stalin's USSR (rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/)
Keep in touch with us here: trex-arms.com/newsletter/
Are AIs getting smarter faster than we are getting dumber? Will they lift us to higher plane of human evolution, or send killer robots to terminate us? It is becoming increasing clear that futurists of the past were very bad at predicting what AIs would be good at. Here are a few observations on how the battle for reality might go during the rise of the machines.
Additional Materials:
• Scott Alexander's article "Perhaps it is a bad thing that AI companies cannot control their AIs (astralcodexten.substack.com/p/perhaps-it-is-a-bad-thing-that-the) "
• No Dumb Questions Podcast episode about ChatGPT (https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2022/12/9/147-can-ai-fool-you-a-convo-with-chatgpt)
• Photo retouching and historical alterations in Stalin's USSR (rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/)
Keep in touch with us here: trex-arms.com/newsletter/
