Category: Takeoff

  • AI forecast 2030: Hypercapitalism, AutoCorps & the shocking Future of Humanity

    AI forecast 2030: Hypercapitalism, AutoCorps & the shocking Future of Humanity

    We’ve now had an entire year for the mainstream populace to play with and grasp the consequences of a superintelligent AGI — namely, ChatGPT (and its siblings, children, and distant cousins). Now, it’s time to look at our AI forecast, and what that bodes for us and our civilization. For ease of digestion, I’ve broken…

  • What is an Accelerationista? Audacity of the Phoenix Civilization c.2028

    As a young adult, I developed several theories about how I would move through the world. One, which I describe below, I called “Gas Pedal.” I did not realise at the time that it would align quite well with the societal plan of the Accelerationista. This is a serious and powerful school of thought that…

  • The Death of the Internet and the Genesis of Language 1.0

    The Internet was beginning, around the turn of the century, to be the end sum repository for all human knowledge. All thoughts, all books, all diaries, all photos, all videos… basically, a document repository of everything significant (and insignificant) piece of media that humans had every produced, from the beginning of history to the present…

  • AutoGPT and BabyAGI v1.0, Evil ChaosGPT & EotWaWKI

    I’m not up for full-on considered composition on this post, so I’m just going to copy and paste some stream-of-thought ideas from my DMs, interspersed with screenshots. Bottom line: Give GPT4 an “Agentic” (futurepost: What is an Agent?) front end, that allows a) goal-setting, b) net browsing, c) memory storage, d) code execution privileges, and…

  • Seven Years in Seven Days: AI Takeoff March 2023: Strap In, Humans

    I can say honestly and without exaggeration: I’ve been in tech for more than 3 decades now, and this past 7 days has been the most eventful and most accelerated leap I’ve yet seen. It is, without a doubt, the AI takeoff. Let’s give it some context, and hit some of the highlights: (The Lead-Up:…

  • This Changes Everything – Opinion by Ezra Klein

    This Changes Everything by Ezra Klein being a mildly stylised and textually verbatim reproduction of the article that appears behind the NYT paywall, here. Opinion for the New York Times — March 13, 2023 In 2018, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google — and not one of the tech executives known for overstatement —…

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