Metacrisis

Metacrisis thoughts

Key points

Global economy is largely about productivity and wealth and generally at the expense of the environment and of species which are both regarded as a resource to be controlled and/or consumed.

Most technologies are an "arms race" if you don't take part you loose (in the short term) and if you do take part you loose (in the long term). The trick for most is to exploit the opportunity, exit and leave the implications to others.

Many good ideas have bad side effects, the problem is there are fewer winners for the former and more losers for the latter. That is how wealth is transferred, and the purpose of the Global economy is to incentivise that transfer as a reward for ingenuity.

Our consumption of natural resources outstrips its replacement and whilst the planet will continue it seems clear that sustaining 7billion people on the current trajectory is not going to be a possibility.

Some may feel this is all reversible or recoverable like refreezing ice in an oven. Others feel the future of humanity is adapting to life in an oven by adopting new technologies (whilst nature becomes inhospitable, species die, and natural resources run out)

AI is simply an accelerant, enabling faster decisions, more extraction, greater productivity and wealth. Intelligence without wisdom. Consumption without consequences (AI doesn't have children, countries, conscious nor does it feel hungry, sad, or uncomfortably hot) But it will coach you to think positive.

Metacrisis resources

Daniel Schmachtenberger "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism" | The Great Simplification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8PLHvZygo

Daniel Schmachtenberger on AI Accelerating the Metacrisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMozC3zNH4

Iain McGilchrist: "Wisdom, Nature and the Brain" | The Great Simplification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dogVQDydRGQ

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41SUp-TRVlg