It has come to my attention that my old Twitter account is now a Chinese porn bot that’s “hoping to meet a brother” so I’m back after a long hiatus with a new handle on this dumpster fire of a platform 😍
Catching up on all the AI news and research really harshing my post music fest bliss. Dancing to techno in the woods can only restore you so much I suppose.
A lot of AI futures can seem monolithic or theological: a single AGI, (mis)aligned with us. But ecology give us a better image: webs of agents big and small in mutualistic, parasitic and predatory relationships with each other and us, with all the emergent complexity that brings
Wow looking at my activity on here and you’d think I got back on Twitter just to rant about the World Cup but alas, it is time to actually keep up and engage with AI Twitter 😵💫
With apologies to successionists, torch passers, technocapital-determinists, and neo-Malthusians, the foreseeable future will be human at its core, despite being transformed by technology. Naturally prophets will say this is cope, but I'm not really swayed by clunky interpretations of generalized Darwinism; I think that's fundamentally a category error.
By age 40, you should have:
• Never left your hometown
• Never been married
• Never kissed a woman
• Never held a stable job
• Never published anything of note