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How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? - Woody Wiegmann

February 20, 2023 · 54 min

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Woody Wiegmann

https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann

What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency?

  1. What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do?

    1. Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual

  2. Are there going to be business moats around AI?

  3. How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower?

  4. The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean?

  5. What is the importance of status games in human relationships?

  6. What is Keynesian beauty/stock dynamics?

  7. Is there a ground truth?

  8. What is the relationship between gossip and myths for what both for tribes and meta-tribes?

  9. What is trend on vices that represent escapism?

    1. In what ways is Twitter escapism?

  10. What happens when a bureaucracy tries to intervene?

  11. What happens when bureaucracies clash with the uncertainty of the implications of AI?

  12. What is humanity going through in terms of its faith in the expert class?

  13. Where does credit go when you have low-interest rates and the government pumps trillions of monopoly money into the system?

  14. What are the negative externalities of corporations consolidating?

  15. What is the relationship between monopoly money injected into the economy and finding consensus among humans?

  16. What happens when AGI becomes the deity?

    1. What happens when the market becomes God?

  17. What is the importance of optics? Can you be authentic when concerned with optics?

  18. How does anti-trust law get it wrong?

  19. Can we have decentralized anti-trust law?

  20. How is the brain built off redundant systems?

  21. What is your take on transhumanism?

 

Books mentioned

Seveneves: https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B00LZWV8JO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Rare Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe-ebook/dp/B00L60PP0I/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=V3UGRDR27PTV&keywords=rare+earth&qid=1676913897&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+earth%2Cdigital-text%2C185&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySUg5NjgyRlBBQ0hJJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjIyOTI0MkE1QlExN0xCM1NRRyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDMxNjY0MTczTkU0VDdSQkpPMSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

 

Episode transcript
Stewart Alsop III00:00

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you. If you have an insane drive to find the truth of things, it's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there, my guests go there, and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on itunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Woody Wigman and he's been on a couple times and we were talking about the. I had tweeted about how humans, our main superpower is that we get things wrong. If you look at a goat, that goat basically gets everything within its world right. It just picks at the food, it eats the food. It tries to get into all these little places and it. And it does all those small little details extremely right. Doesn't get it wrong. Whereas human beings get everything wrong because we have this ability to virtualize our imaginations and shared our imaginations with other people and come up with crazy theories that are totally abstracted away from the reality in which we all live. And in that process, we get things wrong. We get all things wrong, basically, most things wrong. But in that process, we find out what's right and what works. And, you know, we develop these technologies that were long periods of getting things wrong. So we're gonna, we're gonna talk about that and we're gonna talk about AI and how. What. What AI will do to people who have limited intelligence and agency and giving them this giant, beautiful second brain. What that will do, whether there's any business moats about AI and maybe even we'll talk about Sam Harris and get into some really controversial stuff as well. So welcome to the show.

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