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It's good to read something balanced. There is a ton of opportunity for advancement. It just takes good honest critique to make sure we don't lose our way.

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I want someone to start talking about the energy that is going to be required for all this AI and where it's going to come from. And I would like to know that these AI techdudes are thinking about it. Because you can't enjoy your utopia when the natural world is out of control.

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Nuclear energy is a great place to start especially with the evolved technology and micro-nuclear reactors.

https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/nuclear-meltdown

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Yep -- I think the energy vs progress conversation is complex, but there are not enough people (or organizations) in the energy transitions and sustainability/climate change talking about this seriously -- touched on briefly last week: https://futureofbeinghuman.com/p/the-double-or-nothing-bet-on-ai-fixing-the-climate

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12 hrs agoLiked by Andrew Maynard

I think the tech “visionaries” ignore this subject at their own peril.

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Well said.

I, too, loved the shout out to Banks. When people ask me what a future with "powerful" AI could look like, Banks' Culture is my go-to fictional utopian exemplar (as much as I enjoyed reading cyberpunk literature in my youth, I never thought "I'd love to actually inhabit this universe which has so clearly been written as a cautionary example.")

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18 hrs agoLiked by Andrew Maynard

For another reference to the Machines of Loving Grace, check out https://medium.com/@technoshaman/machine-love-is-coming-to-a-screen-near-to-you-e1fd13fd08b2

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