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Gabriel @Gabe_cc

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Gabe @Gabe_cc · 47m
After some new tech is introduced, does humanity become more resilient or more fragile for it?

The answer depends on the time given to absorb it

Critically, tech acceleration, esp through AI and RSI, reduces these absorption timelines more and more

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Samuel Hammo... @hamandc... · Jul 31
Replying to @Brendan_McCord
Before succumbing to the temptation to naval gaze into the political theory abyss, it's worth stepping back and clarifying what exactly is happening and being proposed….
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Tweet by Gabe (@Gabe_cc) arguing that whether new technology makes humanity more resilient or more fragile depends on the time available to absorb it, and that AI/recursive self-improvement (RSI) is shrinking those absorption timelines, quoting Samuel Hammond's reply to Brendan McCord about grounding political-theory discussion in what's actually happening and proposed.

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carl feynman @carl_feynman

— reply to @almostlikethat (Jennifer RM)

carl feynman @carl_feynman · 2h Here's a mental experience that is new for me as I get into my sixties: turning into a cranky old man who doesn't like or appreciate new things. I've always thought of myself as a future-oriented guy who enjoyed trying new stuff, and felt sorry for those people who approached new things as a threat or obstacle. But sometimes now when faced with some innovation that I have to deal with, I find myself growing cranky and disagreeable at its failure to be something I understand. I notice it particularly when one of my adult kids is there and says "Papa, let me take care of that", and they deal with it, and I relax. I recognize that I'm enacting a trope, and I hate it, but it happens anyway. Not often, thank goodness, but it's getting more and more common. I've lost some of my mental flexibility, and this is how it comes out. Jennifer RM @almostlikethat · 16h I thought "seeing stars" was fake until I jumped, barefoot, into some snow, after hot tubbing... and flickery sparkles appeared in my vision! What mental experience has been like that for ...
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Reply-chain screenshot; the quoted parent tweet by Jennifer RM is truncated with platform ellipsis.

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