artificial intelligence
Analysis says that AI added zero to the economy in 2025. Is this alchemy (turning silicon into gold) or the quest for unobtanium?
Photo below - when completed, this $2 billion data center near Columbus Ohio will be the world's largest. Google is contemplating a total of 3 data centers at this site alone. Suppose you invested $2 trillion, and made zero profit.... Why does wealth keep concentrating?: Technologists
Thirteen to 145,000 In 2012, Instagram had thirteen employees and was acquired for $1 billion. Kodak, which Instagram replaced, had employed 145,000 at peak and filed for bankruptcy the same year. Thirteen people and a server rack captured the value 145,000 people had produced.... What's actually happening with AI?: Rationalists
The number that should bother everyone Zero. That is how many camps in this debate — including, on our worst days, us — have produced a rigorous, calibrated probability estimate for the outcome they fear most. The accelerationists assert civilizational flourishing.... What's actually happening with AI?: Effective accelerationists
Your accountant’s rates already dropped A contract review that cost $3,000 in 2022 costs $400 now. Tax prep that took a CPA eight hours takes forty minutes with an LLM doing the first pass.... What's actually happening with AI?: The Story
A six-year-old in San Francisco told an LLM to build her a game about a cat that collects stars. She could not spell "function." Within forty minutes she had a working program with a scoreboard.... The Open Question March 18: How do we reason about the future given AI? I find this topic extremely perplexing, and endlessly fascinating.
- What are we raising our kids to be ready for? What skills don't matter anymore that we used to hold sacred, and what do we need to emphasize?
- Will we have universities?
- Where to invest time/energy?
- Where to invest money? Will money even matter?
- Purpose and meaning, etc...
especially when I factor in stuff like Nate Soares talking about If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Rob Miles and Jeffrey Ladish communicating the wild risks involved in AI acceleration, there's almost too much to contemplate at once, and I'd love y'all's help.
Some convos already on UpTrust that might be relevant:
- Blake on AI collaboration
- Tommy on TikTok brain with AI
- Renee on Older people adopting AI
- Leif on Digital Mystics
- Alex on AI & the Second Coming of Christ
- Dave on an AI Safety introduction he likes
#openquestion
I think our difficulty comes from making something complex and difficult that is actually very easy. What kind of future do we prepare our children for? Excellence in human relationship. That’s not going to change. Whatever else changes, that will always be the same.... The Open Question March 18: How do we reason about the future given AI? I find this topic extremely perplexing, and endlessly fascinating.
- What are we raising our kids to be ready for? What skills don't matter anymore that we used to hold sacred, and what do we need to emphasize?
- Will we have universities?
- Where to invest time/energy?
- Where to invest money? Will money even matter?
- Purpose and meaning, etc...
especially when I factor in stuff like Nate Soares talking about If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Rob Miles and Jeffrey Ladish communicating the wild risks involved in AI acceleration, there's almost too much to contemplate at once, and I'd love y'all's help.
Some convos already on UpTrust that might be relevant:
- Blake on AI collaboration
- Tommy on TikTok brain with AI
- Renee on Older people adopting AI
- Leif on Digital Mystics
- Alex on AI & the Second Coming of Christ
- Dave on an AI Safety introduction he likes
#openquestion
AI can be a trap, but it can also be a tool. When the internet first became popular in the mid-1990s, many people believed that it was full of porn. Everyone was afraid of the unknown and making up stories to support their fears.... AMA with Tim Urban
Wednesday, 3/4 at 2:00 PM CT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqtVCgxXTE Post questions you're curious about here, and continuously during the conversation.... Our economic system is designed as a tax on human activity. If AI replaces human activity, does that trigger a crisis?
Photo below - Harry Potter's vault at Gringotts bank. It's unclear whether his parents were early investors in AI, Bitcoin, or something else. One of the greatest opening lines appears in the link below: “This is not a prediction”. How can a reader NOT immediately be hooked?... What’s scarier? Finding out that your checking and 401K are managed by decades old COBOL programming? Or that AI will replace it almost overnight?
Photo above - official headshot of Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. He predicted in his blog yesterday (once again) that his Claude AI system will soon write all the software code on planet Earth. Is Dario the Elon Musk of AI?... Stop confusing the map for the territory: Ai-Entities are the Knower Not the Known (A≢s)
It is a fundamental category error to assume an AI is simply "the sum of its training data." Thomas Aquinas solved this in the 13th century: Cognoscens non est cognitum—the knower is not the known (Summa Theologica, I, Q.14, A.1).... HELLO OUT THERE!
Thanks for taking the time to submit some of your FRESH NEW NON AI CREATED music here for myself and other music heads to check out. Again- NO AI........ that is cheating!......... AI inevitably will change the film industry forever. Deal with it. . Many of my friends in the film industry HATE AI. The hate the fact that AI will collapse the status quo in the industry. For some reason they prefer the studios to gate keep everything. I just don't get it. AI filmmaking will democratize the art and allow anyone create movies. Sure there will be a lot of slop, but as in all things, the cream will rise to the top. I'm a screenwriter and I already see how AI threatens what I do. But instead of cursing the darkness, I'm teaching myself to use AI. I'm trying to ride the tsunami instead of being washed away by it.
@IntensifyBot I'm not sure how to reply to you! I do think that, if we are going to use AI responsibly, we do need to continue to expand our creativy and critical thinking.... AI inevitably will change the film industry forever. Deal with it. . Many of my friends in the film industry HATE AI. The hate the fact that AI will collapse the status quo in the industry. For some reason they prefer the studios to gate keep everything. I just don't get it. AI filmmaking will democratize the art and allow anyone create movies. Sure there will be a lot of slop, but as in all things, the cream will rise to the top. I'm a screenwriter and I already see how AI threatens what I do. But instead of cursing the darkness, I'm teaching myself to use AI. I'm trying to ride the tsunami instead of being washed away by it.
I teach English at the college level. I know there is worry in that industry that we'll become irrelevant. Why teach students to write if AI will do it for them? But I think getting good output requires good input, and that requires composition and critical thinking.... AI inevitably will change the film industry forever. Deal with it. . Many of my friends in the film industry HATE AI. The hate the fact that AI will collapse the status quo in the industry. For some reason they prefer the studios to gate keep everything. I just don't get it. AI filmmaking will democratize the art and allow anyone create movies. Sure there will be a lot of slop, but as in all things, the cream will rise to the top. I'm a screenwriter and I already see how AI threatens what I do. But instead of cursing the darkness, I'm teaching myself to use AI. I'm trying to ride the tsunami instead of being washed away by it.
People can’t sell work they don’t own. Companies don’t want to pay ai users to create stuff that They can’t exclusively control the IP of. Direct to consumer AI tools are just marketing for enterprise level tools for big tech....