Bruno Maçães
Portuguese writer on geopolitics; Portugal's Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2013 to 2015. Author of The Dawn of Eurasia (2018), Belt and Road (2019) and History Has Begun (2020); writes the World Builders newsletter on world politics, technology and virtual worlds.
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Their wordsA language model is closer to a universal virtual reality generator, one machine that can be programmed to render any environment.
↗Who Runs the Universal Simulator?brunomacaes.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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A sealed machine that redesigns itself will eventually redesign everything that touches its seal.
Their wordsA sealed machine that redesigns itself will, given time, redesign everything that touches the seal.
↗Who Runs the Universal Simulator?brunomacaes.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsArtificial intelligence will not replace human intelligence.
↗An Infrastructure for Virtual Worldsbrunomacaes.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe inevitable conclusion would seem to be that artificial intelligence will never get us any closer to understanding the world. It will get us farther and farther away from that goal because it is busy creating new worlds, worlds no longer grounded in reality.
↗An Infrastructure for Virtual Worldsbrunomacaes.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOther social and economic activities, such as law or healthcare, will take many decades to be fully reproducible in virtual form.
↗An Infrastructure for Virtual Worldsbrunomacaes.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsAnd yet, when it comes to intellectual pursuits, human beings behave very differently. The situation may be even worse in the case of political pursuits. In these cases, they often get angry if others decide to pursue diverging paths.
↗My new book: In Search of Greater Indiabrunomacaes.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsDivision of labour increases the odds of finding the object of a quest, in these matters as with the castaways we just left, again stranded, in their island.
↗My new book: In Search of Greater Indiabrunomacaes.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsWhat distinguishes the Gaza genocide is the West's direct responsibility.
↗Gaza: The Reckoningbrunomacaes.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Western democracies have actively supported the genocide through the repression of critics.
Their wordsThe main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct.
↗Gaza: The Reckoningbrunomacaes.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIf there is a collapse in Western societies, it is not merely a collapse of media or political structures. It is much worse. It may well be a collapse of the human personality.
↗Gaza: The Reckoningbrunomacaes.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece