Stephen Wolfram
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4,069 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2020
last heard 29 May
Stephen Wolfram’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then the question of sort of as we explore what we can think of as the computational universe, as we explore all these different possibilities for what we could do, all these different inventions we could make, all these different things, the question is which ones do we choose to follow?
Those choices are the things that, in a sense, if the humans want to still have kind of human progress,
That's what we get to make those choices, so to speak.
In other words, there's this idea, if you say, let's take the kind of what exists today and use that as the determiner of all of what there is in the future,
The thing that is sort of the opportunity for humans is there will be many possibilities thrown up.
There are many different things that could happen or be done.
And insofar as we want to be in the loop, the thing that makes sense for us to be in the loop doing is picking which of those possibilities we want.
Right, the AIs take over.
I've thought for a long time that it's the AR autosuggestion that's really the thing that makes the AIs take over.
It's just that the humans just follow.
Yeah, yeah.
But the thing where humans are potentially in the loop is when there's a choice.
And when there's a choice which we could make based on our kind of whole web of history and so on.
And that's, you know, that's insofar as it's all just, you know, determined, you know, the humans don't have a place.
And by the way, I mean, at some level, it's all kind of a complicated philosophical issue because at some level, the universe is just doing what it does.
We are parts of that universe that are necessarily doing what we do, so to speak.
Yet, we feel we have sort of agency in what we're doing.
And that's its own separate kind of interesting issue.
The computational universe is full of such things.
We can make all kinds of interesting things in the computational universe.
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