Engineering Our Social Vehicles

Thoughts on dismantling meritocracy, creating narrative technology, moral philosophy, and AI. With some spicy short fiction thrown in for good measure.

The hottest Substack posts of Engineering Our Social Vehicles

And their main takeaways

Let's Go Serfing: the case for modern serfdom

26 implied HN points • 18 Jun 23

🎭️ Culture Anxiety Social Commentary

The argument is made for a return to modern serfdom as a solution to societal anxieties and uncertainties.
Serfing is presented as a way to find stability, security, and subsistence in a world filled with anxiety.
Different modern opportunities for 'serfing' are highlighted, ranging from corporate communities to working for tech giants.

GenAI, the Unsingularity, and the coming age of discontent

21 implied HN points • 21 Jul 23

🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Misinformation Automation Internet

GenAI can create content, but also spread misinformation.
AI-generated content like 'Glorbo' may impact the internet's quality.
Generative AI may lead to a future with more machine-created content than human-made, affecting the online culture.

Accepting Our Idiocy

26 implied HN points • 01 Apr 23

🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Sentience Ethics Artificial Intelligence

AI isn't sentient, humanity is vain.
Associative learning in AI mirrors human social development.
Human creativity isn't special, it's an indicator of learning.

Infolife

8 implied HN points • 02 Apr 23

🔬 Science Evolution Society Genetics

Imagining a world where information has physical form.
Infolife exists in different environments on the Infoplane mirroring different mediums of storage and communication in the physical world.
Translation into new informational mediums may represent adaptation or development of information into new species on the Infoplane.