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Capitalism as new driver for pushing tech forward
FindFace — Russian facebook clone
- 70% precision for identifying people’s faces
- Art project to find people’s faces
- CIA funding ranch
Left — using tech to breach gender barriers, cyborgs as freeing mechanisms
Right — Tools becoming end of themselves
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ultimate achivement of autonomy is capatalism replicating itself
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Roko’s Basilisk
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Reading insights — Francis
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Primary Source: Neon Genesis Evangelion
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AT fields
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Human Instrumentality Project
Google I/O
- Virtual Reality as democratically-enabled reality breaker
- Body and Senses are limited inputs/outputs into/for the world
- Poor translation of what ‘eyesight is’
- VR as Programmable Psychadelics
- VR as life-extension, punishment, cheap method of imprisonment
The Human Experiment — Meta Humans
- “AI Psychology” as a new field
- How might AI be investigated when we can’t even look into our own brains?
- AI vs. IA
- Tesla Autopilot
- Randomization is the only optimization
- Taylor AI
- AI CEOs:
- First will operate as CEO assistants
- Will eventually be able to pilot companies based on objective input
Cybernetics Intro: Norman Weiner
- Intersection of multiple roles
Venavir Bush
- Memex
‘Dark Enlightenment’
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Menicious Moldbug
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Human Biodiversity
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Crooked Timber post: libertarian as a form of feudalism http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/15/libertarianism-property-rights-and-self-ownership/
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Information garnering
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Soylent
Fullmetal Alchemist
- ‘Alchemy’: A natural science, recomposition, magic
- Transmuting human composition into human life
- global temperature shifts
- When you zoom out far enough
- Ray Curswell
- Live forever
- Raise his dead father
- Gboard - autocomplete on steroids
- Allo - canned responses
- Facebook groups meme posting bots
- Horse eBooks
- Sketch plugin, robot designer
- The bot-averaged Facebook
- Abstraction of nature into scientific laws
- If we trust these abstractions enough, they become laws
- We build abstractions/laws on top of one another
- If you work within these confines, you can create amazing things
- ‘Fundamentals of Circuits’ (Ask Denis to link)
- ‘SICP’: recursive abstractions of machine/software/machine/... https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-30.html#%_chap_5
- DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Ethereum
- Unsent Outputs: A log of money not in circulation
- Origins of money
- Bartering system as fundamental
- Gift economies in pre-money societies
- The reason why you see someone again
- If someone gives you a give of 10$, you have to raise them 15$ or else you never want to see them again
- Dan Arielli ‘Thinking fast and slow”
- Study: Someone is stranded on the side of the road
- One person is thankful: Social
- One person offers money: Framing things in financial terms
- Dale Carnegie: How to win friends and influence people
- Grifter/Pickpocket techniques
- ‘The Imposter’ French Film
- Thin Blue Line: Classic Cop Documentary
- Andy Grove: High Output Management
- Organizational Design
- Valve Organization
- Employee Handbook
- Hats as a method of garnering money
- Agile Manufacturing: Toyota Model that Superceded the Ford model Kanban
- Lease stability
- WeLive/WeWork
- Voting via app