23 korrents from this recording
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Their wordsSo democracy, it's not like you have democracy and on the side you have these information technologies. No, the basis of democracy is information technology.
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Their wordsAnd until today, it was utterly impossible to fake intimacy and to mass-produce intimacy.
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Our reading
The most important lessons in school are learned during the breaks, which should not be automated
Their wordsvery often you learn that the most important lessons in school are not learned during the lessons. They are learned during the breaks. And this is something that should not be automated.
0:27:33 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThe basic function of information in history and also in biology, is to connect. Information is connection.
0:37:13 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Recommendation algorithms are now the kingmakers and the editors that decide what gets viewed
Their wordsThe algorithms are the kingmakers. They are the editors now. They decide what gets viewed.
0:37:53 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd this is not freedom of speech because the algorithms don't have freedom of speech.
0:43:01 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIt works if you think that the other side is wrong, but they are still essentially good people who care about the country, who care about me, but they have different opinions.
0:48:49 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthe most sensitive moment in every democracy is the moment of transfer of power.
0:51:52 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou cannot trust the technology. You trust the institution that verifies the information.
0:56:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
People are suspicious of bureaucracies because they are a very recent development in human evolution
Their wordsIt's difficult for us to understand bureaucratic systems because they are a very recent development in human evolution. And this makes us suspicious about them.
1:04:46 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWe think that only another frail flesh-and-blood human who knows what is pain and love and who can suffer, only they can connect us to the divine.
1:06:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Whether silicon-based AI can ever be conscious is unknown and is the biggest question in science
Their wordsSo this is why we don't know whether an inorganic structure based on silicon and not carbon, whether it will be able to generate such things or not. That's, I think, the biggest question in science.
1:09:31 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthen this will become a social convention that people will feel that their AI friend is a conscious being and therefore should be granted rights.
1:11:55 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
The internet's metaphor has changed from the web that connects to the cocoon that encloses
Their wordsThe new metaphor is the cocoon. It's a web that turns on you and encloses you from all sides.
1:18:15 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Social media's engagement algorithms already played out Bostrom's paperclip thought experiment
Their wordsIn the very same years, that Nick Bostrom came up with this thought experiment in 2014, the managers of Facebook and YouTube, they told their algorithms, your goal is to increase user engagement. And the algorithms of social media, they conquered the world and turned the whole world into user engagement, which was what they were told to do.
1:21:46 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Algorithms get easy-to-measure goals like engagement, and these are the most dangerous ones
Their wordsNow, the great thing about make money or increase user engagement is that it's very easy to measure it mathematically.
1:25:59 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThe key issue is who has liability, that it's the company that is liable for what the algorithm is doing and not the human individual liable for what they are saying.
1:26:22 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think that humans have a right to stupidity in private.
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Their wordsBut if you have 100,000 followers online, we need to know that you are not a bot. that you're actually a human being.
1:36:26 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Tech companies' trick is to claim that thousands of years of hard-won rules do not apply to them
Their wordsthat's the whole trick of these tech companies, that again, we have thousands of years of history and they tell us, oh, it doesn't apply to us.
1:45:11 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsnow we have the Silicon Curtain dividing not just China from the US, but also Democrats from Republicans, also one person from another person, and all of us from the AIs
1:45:40 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI just came from Israel and I saw a country destroying itself for no good reason whatsoever.
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Our reading
Trying to make part of reality disappear, as in war, is weakness; real strength is acknowledging it
Their wordsLike, what is war? It is trying to disappear a part of reality that you don't like.