Big lecture here on economic implications of AI and Nanotechnology.
A Disturbance in the Force
Multiverse
Lusitania vs Titanic Survivors
Voluntary Enslavement and Other Klingian Thoughts
Arnold’s reading a book about Africa:
In this part of Africa [Mozambique] famines were frequent and made terrible depredations, but occurred in some areas more than in others, and people from the affected lands would crowd into unaffected areas where food was to be found. They bought food with anything they possessed, including their own freedom, voluntarily making themselves the slaves of those who would give them sustenance. Desperate individuals would even destroy an item of value belonging to a wealthier neighbor, knowing that the punishment for this symbolic act would be enslavement.
He goes on to comment that to accumulate wealth and power we must have others work for us. Interesting stuff. Can’t wait to get around to reading his latest book.
Chicks Dig Chicks
Self Help
If At First You Don’t Succeed
Michael Lewis
Robin Hanson on Lies
on the Movie The Invention of Lying
Appreciations of Robin here and here.
He’s one of the few people I’ve read that I genuinely think is a step or two ahead of everyone else. And not the kind of step that you can take by increasing the content of your mental knowledge bank. Remarkable stuff. But he’s a bit of an acquired taste.
Not Unreasonable 