Contraptions

Contraptions

Goalposts-Complete Problems

Research note for a potential series on AI

Venkatesh Rao
Sep 24, 2021
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I seem to be developing a fragmentary set of ideas around the philosophy of AI that may well turn into another serialized project for this newsletter. The explorations started with Superhistory, Not Superintelligence. I don’t yet have a clear idea of what the larger project should be, but I want to share a note today on an idea I call Goalposts-complete…

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