NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 6)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello, welcome to the sixth session of Nick Lan's Anthropole. We have some people trailing in, so we're just going to start in. So Nick, whenever you're ready, you can start. We're live. Nick? Oh yeah, sorry. Everyone seems, well, you seem very quiet right now. I'm just wondering whether I've got something with…

• 00:23:24

  So this machine translates between English and Chinese. And in the Chinese room experiment, you'll add a text-only interface. You ask it to translate a certain piece of English into Chinese, or vice versa. The answer comes back satisfactorily. It seems to pass the test. So it says, well, you look at what's actually…

• 00:46:43

  The kind of demands or real innovation. Innovation that doesn't have to worry about how long it takes to experiment with a particular set of ideas to get something out of them. And if there was some kind of protection, it doesn't even have to be status, but some kind of like thing that cushioned research R&D employees…

• 01:07:46

  He doesn't have to understand what he's doing, he doesn't have to understand what it's all about, where it's going, none of that, none of that, any sort of concentrated... Sorry, I think someone was trying to talk, but I didn't... I think it was feedback from Jake's bike. Oh. So this is kind of like Jewish bankers…

• 01:32:58

  Like, you know, since... since you've raised it, this univ... and it's obviously really important, this whole discussion, I think, is universal basic income is a good example, I think. Like, because it can't... it can't be... it was surely generated by the kind of mechanisms that you suggested. By its very nature…

• 01:53:53

  He ran this whole kind of artificial brain lab somewhere and things. And there's no recognizable discourse of AI alarmism that I have ever noticed. I mean, the whole thing is just like, this is like... this is great tech stuff and we should be doing this much as fast as we can. So I'm not saying that China…

• 02:14:18

  that these structures are already at work. Well, it's actually... it's kind of interesting to ask, like, well, like, what is that right now? Like, what is money... what is money being invested in right now? Not just necessarily in comparison with, like, you know, a UBI scheme that no one has really proposed…

• 02:37:26

  Yeah. Just about to. But I think we're sort of in that zone now. I don't know if people have stuff to say. We'll share a second. Yeah, I would say if we have any last-minute comments, otherwise we can continue it on the classroom. All good. So we're going to start. Okay. So we're going to start.