Shekhar Natarajan

that AI would have a reason to force that upon us, given the fact that I just suspect my inclination is that what these technologies do is expand our possibility spaces.

You know, like Kevin Kelly famously says, like, you know, technology is a double-edged sword, but as long as it creates more choices in the end, that's like a good thing.

And that seems like constraining choices.

And so I like to think that it's a great thought experiment, but I just,

I don't know.

I don't think that that's the way it would go.

The fact that we can be so brilliant and so awful at the same time, that one human can be like, man, this person reminds me that humanity can achieve anything.

And then someone else can just be like, wow, we haven't evolved at all.

What a brute this person is.

And the fact that

our species produces individuals that can be both of those things continues to be the thing that haunts me the most.

ecological nooks, if you like, for certain people with certain character traits to thrive.

So the masks and the kind of the Caligula's of this world, let's say.

And I think a lot of the leaders that we see who are in it to acquire power and to dominate others have wounds that have not been touched

Does that mean, like, if we can't find on a self-sustaining Earth that is much longer lived than we are, if we cannot find a way to sustain the resources available to us and acknowledge that we are all interrelated,

How the f*** are we going to use AI?

It's in service to anything other than the destruction of our species.

And I think that at the darkest point in human history, when you look backwards, often it's in these most dark moments before dawn where things are lost.

So this gets back to the algorithm.

What do you optimize on?