Short Post: New Piece on Default Wisdom
Keeping you up to date!
Welcome to all my new subscribers! It’s very encouraging to see one or two emails a day popping up on my phone, telling me that someone else out there has found my writing and taken the steps to sign up.
I’ve got a few long-form pieces on the go, to be released soon. I’ve also recorded an interview last week which I spent a great deal preparing for. And I’m also moving. And I’m also starting college.
So please excuse the delay in getting anything new to you. I have in fact written something new recently. It’s was for my friend Katherine Dee’s Substack Default Wisdom:
The situation we are dealing with technologically is, for most people, only encountered via mimesis with those who can still sense its shape. Like children looking to their parent’s faces to judge how to feel about a strange situation, most of our leaders have chosen not to look at the problem. They know its a Gorgon. Instead they turn to third-parties to provide the perception they’ve eschewed the work of developing for themselves, where “alarmism” or “Luddism” at the extreme can be dismissed as “crankery.”
Shortly after it was posted, I was elated to get a response from the famous rationalist and AI expert named in the title!
He probably didn’t read it; he’s a busy guy, I don’t care. I do, still, stand by my the main point I am making in the piece: why argue about AI at all when its history is so-embedded in the history of computers which nobody seems to know very well? It’s like arguing about colonialism without understanding boats or maps—you can’t know what you’re talking about.
I hope you check the piece out and leave your comments over there. More content is, I promise, on the way! I’ve just got to tap it all into the machine properly first…
