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B Smith's avatar

Thanks for the good Sunday morning reveries, prof.

Sistine Chapel. God reaching down to Man (substitute humanity if you must). That divine spark, was it a foreshadowing of singularity?

What’s the value of synthetic diamonds and AI art?

Will our descendants say, “yes, our forbears shouldn’t have AI-d, but should the wages of AI-ing have been THIS?”

Altman paraphrased:The world needs to agree on proper uses and we’ll need good governance. Me: What a terrifying prospect, world governance from the technocrats. Give me a dozen people from the Oklahoma City phone book who were educated before the year 2000.

Am I a hopeless pessimist? A pessimistic hoper?

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Winkfield Twyman's avatar

Maybe you are both -- a hopeless pessimist and a pessimistic hoper? Depends upon one's perception and framing.

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