In my draft book World After Capital, I write that humans having knowledge is what makes us distinctly human and gives us great power (and hence great responsibility). I define knowledge in this context as science, philosophy, art, music, etc. that’s recorded in a medium so that it can be shared across time and space. Such knowledge is at the heart of human progress, because it can be improved through the process of critical inquiry. We can fly in planes and feed seven billion people because ...

In my draft book World After Capital, I write that humans having knowledge is what makes us distinctly human and gives us great power (and hence great responsibility). I define knowledge in this context as science, philosophy, art, music, etc. that’s recorded in a medium so that it can be shared across time and space. Such knowledge is at the heart of human progress, because it can be improved through the process of critical inquiry. We can fly in planes and feed seven billion people because ...

I have already written a prior post arguing against Leopold Aschenbrenner's logic for a Manhattan project to achieve artificial super intelligence (ASI). In that post I made the argument that having more than one system mitigates risks because we can use cooperative systems to overcome the problems being created by non-aligned systems. It has since occurred to me that even taking the nuclear bomb historical analogy entirely on its own merit, Aschenbrenner is wrong. The way we have avoided nuc...

I have already written a prior post arguing against Leopold Aschenbrenner's logic for a Manhattan project to achieve artificial super intelligence (ASI). In that post I made the argument that having more than one system mitigates risks because we can use cooperative systems to overcome the problems being created by non-aligned systems. It has since occurred to me that even taking the nuclear bomb historical analogy entirely on its own merit, Aschenbrenner is wrong. The way we have avoided nuc...