Albert Wenger

Thiel's antichrist bit is top grade attention bait

Convenient excuse ;)

The present state of so much ...

Updated version of Pascal's wager: treat emergent artificial intelligences as humans. Limited downside and potentially infinite upside if it gets future super intelligences to care about human thriving.

Machina Deus “God is dead” Nietzsche famously proclaimed. Humanity’s desire to be ruled by god, by contrast appears very much alive. Our latest hope for salvation rests with Artificial Intelligence. Climate crisis...

Blog post for your weekend reading pleasure: Machina deus continuations.com/machina-deus

Abundant Artificial Attention? My book is called The World After Capital because capital is no longer our binding constraint. We have sufficient physical capital to provide for our needs. Instead, the defining scarcity of our time ...

Blog post: Abundant Artificial Attention? continuations.com/abundant-art...

Excited to be vising Beijing September 12-14 together with @gigidanziger.bsky.social to talk about my book The World After Capital, which has been published in China by Cheers Books

Philosophy Mondays: Philosophy and Physics (Reality) As I have previously argued we can and should work towards a universal moral core. This project is essential so that our technological progress can be guided by moral progress, instead of running far ...

New post in my Philosophy Monday series: Philosophy and Physics (Reality) continuations.com/philosophy-m...

Universal Basic Robots

The AI Metric: $ / MWh For a long time revenue per employee was a good approximation for the profitability of a company. For instance, in the US for a SaaS company to be profitable generally meant it had revenues of at leas...

Blog post: $ / MWh -- the metric for the AI age continuations.com/the-ai-metri...

Philosophy Mondays: Universalism and Moral Progress After an excursion into qualia we are now back to our regular scheduled programming here on Philosophy Mondays. As a brief refresher, let’s retrace our steps. My goal behind Philosophy Mondays is to h...

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Star Trek Vision: Fully Automated Production This is my second post filling in the details of a Star Trek vision. In Star Trek replicators make everything from parts for spaceships to food for human consumption. One would assume that a replicato...

New post in my Star Trek Vision series: Fully automated production continuations.com/star-trek-vi...

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
- E.O. Wilson

In Defense of Democracy In 1787 when asked by Elizabeth Willing Powel "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Benjamin Franklin famously replied “A republic, if you can keep it.” That was now nearly 250 y...

Happy 4th of July: In Defense of Democracy (Blog Post) continuations.com/in-defense-o...

Lots of food for thought and a welcome zooming out at a moment when it is tempting to panic about the present.

Just finished Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men (1930). While somewhat laborious in style it is a sweeping and moving hypothetical history of humanity over billions of years.

Immigration and Citizenship I am an immigrant and I have written about immigration repeatedly before. Today I want to lay out my current views, including how these interact with citizenship requirements. My thinking is likely to...

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - Charles Dickens about o3-pro and LA

Philosophy Mondays: Qualia (Cont'd) So just after I wrote about qualia in last week's Philosophy Monday, Sabine Hossenfelder comes out with a video claiming the exact opposite citing a recent study. In the video she says the following a...

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Philosophy Mondays: Qualia and Scientific Incompleteness Today's Philosophy Mondays will be an interlude from our exploration of knowledge and values. I just finished reading Erik Hoel's wonderful book "The World Behind the World," which I highly recommend ...

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Star Trek Vision: Energy Too Cheap To Meter A few weeks ago I wrote a post outlining a Star Trek Vision for the US. More broadly speaking, I believe that an agenda like this should be the vision for the world. One of the many inspiring aspects ...

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Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman (Book Review) Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian who has written on of the best books about universal basic income with Utopia for Realists (which I highly recommend reading). He followed this up with Humankind, a...

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Israel/Gaza I have not personally commented in public on the Israel/Gaza conflict until now (USV signed on to a statement). The suffering has been heartbreaking and the conflict is far from over. Beyond the carna...

Resurfacing this from Oct 2023 - since then nations have failed to push for a credible post-Hamas Palestinian state & the US has enabled Israel to use that as an excuse for escalating the death toll & allowing expansionist voices in government. Truly awful on all counts. continuations.com/israelgaza

Whither Universities: Reinvention or Obsolescence? Never let a good crisis go to waste. That is the adage that universities should take to heart as they confront the threats of the Trump administration. Because the reality is that universities have be...

Whither Universities: Reinvention or Obsolescence? continuations.com/whither-univ...

Philosophy Mondays: Values (Part 3) In the last two Philosophy Mondays we first defined what values are and then posed the question of a basis for values. The key requirements for such a basis is that it has to be objective so that it c...

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Why are trail cams such a mess? Terrible software. Either wifi or cellular but not both. No RTSP support. No APIs. Someone please make a quality product.

This is an absolute banger of a video for anyone who has been wondering about quantum computing - exceptional density and clarity at the same time!

Apple court decision + mini-apps on Farcaster: amazing news for app developers!