DreamingAgainstTheMachine

DreamingAgainstTheMachine

@dreamingagainstthemachine.com

What would a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social. Join the conversation at https://linktr.ee/dreamingagainstthemachine

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine reposted

I was getting increasingly frustrated with the Discourse this week, and then Ed asked me to come on and vent about it. Felt good and hopefully did some good too. (The next day, Cal and I talked about it even more for @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. That episode will be up next week!)

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social

@edzitron.com is joined by computer science professor Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist @adambecker.bsky.social to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI a narrative driven by a religious cult of effective altruists and rationalists. linktr.ee/betteroffline

DreamingAgainstTheMachine reposted

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: