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The demise of narratives
The information sphere is going through a huge explosion due to the rise of generative AI. Narratives on narratives, the notion that the narrative is an important, even a key aspect of the public sphere is about to get hit with an unprecedented amount of information fog that no one is going to be able to tell what the narrative is, much less control it (sorry-not-sorry Egypt). Instead, power will be, like it has always been, with people who own the tools to change the physical world vis-à-vis the world of perception.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's reaction to the GPT-4 and the recent developments in AI is very strongly conservative. I wonder which side of the political magnets is going to adopt his point of view.
There are about seven technology areas that will redefine humanity in the coming decades. Of these, three are very central: artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion, and atomically precise manufacturing. Development in any of the three will almost surely lead to development in all three, and to a post scarcity economy. This trajectory seems more likely and closer than ever recently.
However, post-scarcity requires no preplanning or panic. What deserves a degree of preparation though is failure to achieve post-scarcity in reasonable time to avoid and to reverse the worst effects of the multi-faceted crisis we are living in, and the temporary turmoil of the transition. This is why worrying about and preparing for the downside is always the best strategy. Because for everything else,, the is Bitcoin.