Tag: Ethics — 5 posts
Book 1: A Tortured Rebel
draft of a new sci-fi series
They redoubled their
Promethean labours
Crafting Robota
To build machines
…that built machines
……that built machines
And so on ad infinitum
Some said a diabolical Matryoshka
In our own day…The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
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“I feel that the four big AI CEOs in the U.S. are modern-day prophets with four different versions of the Gospel ..telling the same basic story that this is so dangerous and so scary that I have to do it and nobody else.”1
(Max Tegmark)
We enter a new age of AI , with some American snake-oil salesmen promising AI (and themselves) as a saviour to solve all of our ills (a new era of ‘psychohistory’ - but more Wizard of Oz style). Thank goodness for Demis Hassabis.
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Like many poets and prophets, Leonard was (we hope) not wrong - just early.
**"It ’s coming to America first / The cradle of the best and of the worst / It’s here they got the range /And the machinery for change / And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst / It’s here the family’s broken / And it’s here the lonely say / That the heart has got to open / In a fundamental way / Democracy is coming to the U.S.A"**1
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Table of contents
I have created an AI podcast version with additional information from my article ‘Direct Decentralised Democracy’:
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