I did this with nuclear weapons, I made a big website full of basic knowledge so that I would have to learn the basic knowledge. I could have just quietly read the information, but engaging my web building creativity, and pretending I was a teacher :-) seemed to help things along.
A bachelor’s in Engineering and Philosophy sounds quite promising. I love the idea of those two together.
I’ve been arguing that existential risk is at it’s heart largely a philosophical problem, more than a technical one. In short, the “more is better” relationship with knowledge which is driving the technology is an outdated, simplistic and increasingly dangerous philosophy left over from the 19th century and earlier. It was a great philosophy in the long era of knowledge scarcity, but we no longer live in that era.
Existential risk is largely a failure to adapt our knowledge philosophy to the new conditions created by the success of the knowledge explosion. Revolutionary new conditions, same old philosophy.
I did this with nuclear weapons, I made a big website full of basic knowledge so that I would have to learn the basic knowledge. I could have just quietly read the information, but engaging my web building creativity, and pretending I was a teacher :-) seemed to help things along.
A bachelor’s in Engineering and Philosophy sounds quite promising. I love the idea of those two together.
I’ve been arguing that existential risk is at it’s heart largely a philosophical problem, more than a technical one. In short, the “more is better” relationship with knowledge which is driving the technology is an outdated, simplistic and increasingly dangerous philosophy left over from the 19th century and earlier. It was a great philosophy in the long era of knowledge scarcity, but we no longer live in that era.
Existential risk is largely a failure to adapt our knowledge philosophy to the new conditions created by the success of the knowledge explosion. Revolutionary new conditions, same old philosophy.
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https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kbfdeZbdoFXT8nuM6/our-relationship-with-knowledge