Will Artificial Intelligence Make Us More or Less Wise?
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02/27/25 • 28 min
In this episode I explore the complex relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and wisdom, particularly focusing on discernment. I argue that while AI can hinder discernment by perpetuating biases and misinformation, it also holds some potential for cultivating it through tools that aid meditation and self-reflection. I also emphasize the importance of truth and self-awareness in this "age of AI." Ultimately, I argue that discernment is a uniquely human quality that requires ongoing effort and vigilance, whether aided by AI or not.
This one was a long-time coming so I hope you get as much out of listening as I did writing it!
More on OpenAI's recent decision to remove some of the content guardrails on ChatGPT.
This episode was adapted from a guest post on Michael Spencer's AI Supremacy newsletter.
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In this episode I explore the complex relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and wisdom, particularly focusing on discernment. I argue that while AI can hinder discernment by perpetuating biases and misinformation, it also holds some potential for cultivating it through tools that aid meditation and self-reflection. I also emphasize the importance of truth and self-awareness in this "age of AI." Ultimately, I argue that discernment is a uniquely human quality that requires ongoing effort and vigilance, whether aided by AI or not.
This one was a long-time coming so I hope you get as much out of listening as I did writing it!
More on OpenAI's recent decision to remove some of the content guardrails on ChatGPT.
This episode was adapted from a guest post on Michael Spencer's AI Supremacy newsletter.
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Previous Episode
Zombies, Transhumanists, and the Worldview Crisis
Continuing our deep dive into what it means to be human in the age of AI, and inspired by the physicalist yet transcendent worldviews of the transhumanists, in this episode I start to explore the concept of worldviews, focusing first on physicalism / scientific materialism (the idea that matter / energy is fundamental), and how that particular metaphysics or worldview was based entirely on a series of assumptions that were never empirically proven. We contextualize all of it via the postmodern zombie mythology.
I focus on the unexplained anomalies from quantum physics as how they undermine the physicalist worldview. I then explore the reasons that physicalism is so intractable as a worldview.
All of this is just to set the table for an exploration of #idealism in my next episode (the idea that mind or consciousness is fundamental). Then we can finally turn our attention to transhumanism and human faculties.
You can find a YouTube version of this episode here.
Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” post
Quantum measurement explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHDMJqJHCQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kxmR82QMN8
Quantum entanglement explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqmIVeheTVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
John Vervaeke on being rational and spiritual
John Vervaeke on Zombies
The famous Einstein - Bergson debate of 1922
My video on the hurdles to AGI
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Cosmic Intelligence - Will Artificial Intelligence Make Us More or Less Wise?
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I recently wrote a piece for substack asking the question, Can AI help us to become more discerning? You know, is it possible to use it as a tool in a way, to cultivate wisdom and things like that, right? And in the process of answering that question, I go into this question around the importance of truth for maintaining a healthy society. And yeah, a lot of the stuff that's been happening in the news recently has been on my mind. So it's it comes up in this piece, as
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