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Minna's avatar

Welcome to Substack! Looking forward to reading your takes on AI and the future of us humans. I wrote a sci-fi anthology about us humans in the near future, if you'd like to see. The book is called 'No End Code' and it's on a crazy promo right now - free - if you want a copy. https://www.amazon.com/No-End-Code-M-Weaving-ebook/dp/B0B9682CQ6

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Thanks for this interesting blog, which aligns pretty well with some of my interests. I'm new here, so for now I'll reply to this:

You write, "..how we can hold on to some semblance of being masters of our own destiny..."

One answer to this challenge could be simply to slow down. As example, imagine that you had to write all your articles at an ever accelerating rate of speed. That factor alone would likely increasingly lead to error.

I liked the graphic in your video which showed...

Problem => Innovation => Solution => Problem

The faster we go around that circle the less likely it is we'll get things right. This seems important because if the next problem we create with innovation is too big, it can bring our journey around the circle to a quick end. Nuclear weapons come to mind here.

It seems to me the fundamental challenge we face is philosophical. We're clinging to "more is better" relationship with knowledge that made sense in the long era of knowledge scarcity. But we no longer live in that old knowledge scarcity era, but in a revolutionary new era characterized by knowledge exploding in every direction at an accelerating rate. We aren't updating our knowledge philosophy to adapt to this new era. Technically we're racing forward, but philosophically we're clinging to the past.

https://www.tannytalk.com/p/our-relationship-with-knowledge

As I read through your site I'll be interested to see if/how you comment on this angle. Please feel free to direct me to relevant sections as needed.

You've picked a great topic for a blog, I'm guessing this project attract considerable interest.

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