18 korrents from this recording
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Their wordsAnd in the 2010s, the algorithms of Facebook in Myanmar, they deliberately spread terrible conspiracy theories and fake news about the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, which led to an ethnic cleansing.
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Their wordsthis is the first time that we are basically about to enter a non-human culture.
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Their wordsIt's not like that at a certain point when the airplane flies fast enough, suddenly the feathers will appear. No. And it could be the same with intelligence and consciousness, that it will be more and more intelligent without feelings ever appearing.
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Their wordsNow, for the first time in history, it is technically possible to annihilate privacy.
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Their wordsThis is daily occurrence today in Tehran and Isfahan and other parts of Iran. And this is based on AI.
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Their wordsDictatorships have zero margin for dissenting views. So they have a much bigger problem with how to control these unpredictable chatbots.
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Their wordsBut you have your one person, Donald Trump, and that has, you know, you have a record from the previous time that this person doesn't want to give power back.
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Our reading
Unlike horses, which never figured out money, AI already understands money better than most people
Their wordsAI is different. It understands money better than most people.
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Their wordsthroughout history, the problem is people are very good at solving problems, but they tend to solve the wrong problems.
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Our reading
Agricultural cities that were meant as a paradise for humans turned out to be a paradise for germs
Their wordsPeople thought they were building paradise for humans. Turned out they were building paradise for germs.
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Their wordsWe've made immense progress in building human trust. And we are rushing to throw it all away because it just, again, it takes time.
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Our reading
Institutions are the key to trust between millions of strangers, because intimacy cannot scale
Their wordsThe key is institutions. Because you can't build a personal intimate relationship with millions of people.
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Their wordsSo people who attack institutions, they often think, oh, we are liberating the people from these authoritarian institutions. They are actually paving the way for a dictatorship.
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Our reading
The cynical view that all human interactions are power struggles is not only cynical but wrong
Their wordsAnd the thing is that this view is not just very cynical, it's also wrong. Humans are not these power-crazy demons.
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Our reading
The sewage system is the real deep state, a state bureaucracy that saves our lives every day
Their wordsThe sewage system is the deep state.
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Their wordsAnd I realized first that I know almost nothing about my mind. I have no control of my mind.
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Their wordsThere are many people that I wouldn't recommend to meditate 2 hours a day or to go for a 10-day meditation retreat because they are different.
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Their wordsYou can build terrible societies without the truth. But if you want to build a good society and you want to build a good personal life, you must have a strong basis in the truth.