Conversations with the Singularity

Designing the Perfect Society with ChatGBT.

We all want to live in a perfect world, don't we?

Not too long ago, many of us were talking about the promise of AI, automation and technology to make the world a better place. We thought that these technologies could help us solve some of the world’s biggest problems and make life easier for everyone.

I decided to just ask this A.I. to design a perfect society. What I found is my own objections are more insightful than what the A.I. had to say.

I guess our friend Edward is right. A.I. is basically gonna be like the microbiota we have in our bodies. Buy his book, The Coevolution here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043939/

In all honesty, I'm kinda annoyed that it sounds like a blockchain based diversity seminar. I think the A.I. is wrong for the same reason Marxist idealists were in the 1930s. You can't just legislate a social contract. You have to enforce it. And the little details matter a lot.

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Clearly, A.I. isn't ready to solve ALL of our problems. It certainly hasn't designed a perfect society. I wonder if it ever will.

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