The Metacrisis: Making Sense in a Nonsensical World with Daniel Schmachtenberger & Thomas Ermacora

What is the unprecedented catastrophic landscape risk humanity faces currently? And what has to be done that is not already currently in place to resolve these issues? In this conversation social philosopher and co-founder of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger and futurist, regeneration architect, Thomas Ermacora, offer an orienting context that affects all human endeavour, and frame what grounded, post-cynical optimism might entail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aKI2C61jVE

Who is your favorite fictional AI?

I think mine is Poe, he is the artificial intelligence owner of the Raven Hotel in the Netflix series Altered Carbon. Poe has shown an interest in humans, stating to other AIs that he finds them fascinating. He takes great pride in being the proprietor of the Raven Hotel where studying humanity has become his greatest aspiration.

A superintelligence would not have to have some evil intent towards humans to do damage, it would just have to be indifferent.

What do you think?

How do we ensure that superintelligence is not indifferent towards us?

New shape discovered that can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/newfound-mathematical-einstein-shape-creates-a-never-repeating-pattern/

The newly discovered einstein tile. Credit: David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, Chaim Goodman-Strauss