Tag: Nate Soares

March Reading Recap

Books I Finished

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

The Death of Caesar by Barry Strauss

Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L’Amour

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta

The Tall Stranger by Louis L’Amour

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Creating Character Arcs by K.M. Weiland

The Mother of the Lord by Margaret Barker

The Nazi Mind by Laurence Rees

The Jupiter Knife by D.J. Butler & Aaron Michael Ritchey

The Lost World of Genesis One by John H. Walton

Dark Canyon by Louis L’Amour

The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim

Write Naked by Jennifer Probst

Lonely on the Mountain by Louis L’Amour

Nightmare Obscura by Michelle Carr

Books I DNFed

  • This Is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
  • The Bible According to Christian Nationalists by Brian Kaylor
  • The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman
  • The Leah Shadow by Harold K. Moon
  • Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh
  • Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
  • Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  • The Making & Breaking of the American Constitution by Mark Peterson
  • Passage by Connie Willis

The most realistic AI worst-case scenario

When it comes to AI, there are a lot of crazy doomsday scenarios floating around out there—just like there are a lot of pie-in-the-sky, utopian visions of an AI-dominated future. But while nobody knows exactly what the future will bring, I think most of these projections are totally wrong. Instead, I think that AI will neither save us nor doom us—but it will completely change us.

With that in mind, I thought I would share this discussion of AI, which is one of the most grounded and realistic discussions of the subject that I’ve heard. It’s also one of the most insightful. We’ve created a technology that we barely understand, but it’s still just a new technology, not a savior or an antichrist. In a hundred years, when our great-grandchildren understand this technology and take it for granted, they will probably laugh at how we thought of it (assuming, of course, that Yudkowsky and Soares are wrong, and we aren’t all exterminated by a superintelligent AI).