“The Enlightenment started with essentially philosophical insights spread by a new technology. Our period is moving in the opposite direction. It has generated a potentially dominating technology in search of a guiding philosophy.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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Pretty cool that at 91, Henry Kissinger was excited about learning new things, though I wish he talked to , , and too.
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Machines are getting upgraded with AI leading to little distinction between the value of human versus the machine. What we need is a parallel effort to upgrade Humanity. And, the way we can do that is by upgrading the consciousnesses of human beings.
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The idea that we turn data into knowledge was wrong at the start of the Enlightenment, and it's wrong now. Dataism is empiricism dressed up in new clothes. So other than the premise, what a great article!
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The latter part of your argument presumes that we retain control of the formation of aims and ends goals. That is far from a certainty. You could very well be correct on the former point though!
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Kissinger seems to be assuming a level of AI which is capable of having goals. Not in evidence at this stage. Meanwhile there are many areas where some regulatory policy thinking is needed. Concrete, real issues, happening NOW:
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An excellent survey of the weak points in our increasingly algorithmic world from @zephoria! Overwhelming and inspiring in about equal measure. Daunting challenges! twitter.com/math_rachel/st