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I listened to this podcast both yesterday and today because I couldn't understand how I can agree with Nick Bostrom's analysis but disagree with his utopia www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WB...

It's interesting that I agree with the "analysis" of Nick Bostrom of what technology is for (efficiency) and what would happen as an end state of achieving peak technology. But I completely disagree (like the host) that this end state represents utopia. This seems like a nightmare to me 😅.

He himself says technology itself cannot be an end goal, technology is *for* something else. Yet, he still ends up favoring a world of complete technological efficiency, where every barrier is removed and we achieved maximum plasticity.

Afaict this is the argument: 1. Assume we have achieved max superintelligence w/ AI, then humans would be like hamsters in the hamster wheel where we artificially limit ourselves 2. Therefore, we should remove these fake restraints and accept whatever the next wave brings.