David Duvenaud

I think 'post-scarcity' is a kind of nonsense term, and people should think of it as temporary abundance that will soon be eaten by whatever growth manages to reproduce the fastest. And whatever the formula is for giving out UBI, machines are going t...

Large language models in particular, and their successors, are on track to becoming a competitive or superior replacement to humans in almost all of our important white-collar and decision-making roles over the next five to 10 years, roughly. In the ...