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Acceleration and its Ricochet (opens the original)
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Let’s forget the global intelligence boom (or the supposed 10% doom) for a second. I am wondering why some of our greatest living philosophers (Anna Greenspan, Byung Chul Han) and curators (Hans Olrich Obrist, Johnson Chang, Tobias Berger) are currently engaging with rocks and gardens of all kinds. Artists exploring beauty as protest when they have time (Dries Van Noten). Maybe: every great step intelligence function forwards, a ricochet follows. Leaving one covered in the fine, glittering pow o
I Think Therefore I RAM (opens the original)
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AI alignment treats governance as a containment problem. This assumes AI is a bounded actor controlled through top-down constraints and constitutional rules. Frontier labs train models in rule-following behavior using natural language in English syntax, while policy creates regulatory guardrails.The flaw lies in these inherent assumptions. We need to strip back to even deeper first principles.Current AI alignment reflects European philosophical traditions that locate moral agency within the disc
Open Source Train-ing Data (opens the original)
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