🔮 After cars; building intelligence; progress; social credit, Fortnite, fraud farms++ #229

We need a theory of how to build AGI

Exponential View

Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society

Hey everyone,

I’ve dropped a slightly longer EV for you. I assume many of you are going on breaks and may need lovely things to think about.

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Dept of the near future

🚘 The obsession with personal cars may have been a strange and damaging blip of cultural history which is coming to an end. A beautiful essay by Nathan Heller. (New data from Europe shows car sales in June are the lowest in 2019 so far.)

🚸 How much would you pay for your child to be the healthiest kid in the classroom? How about the smartest, tallest, best looking, most athletic, or, if you can afford it, why not all of the above? As human gene editing becomes ever more accessible and acceptable, Walter Isaacson explores the question of whether the rich should be allowed to buy the best genes for their children. (Naturally, we already have an answe…