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šŸ”® Democratic AI; local economies; synthetic biology; rare earths, crypto heroes ++ #380

Azeem Azhar
Jul 10, 2022
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Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

In last week’s Sunday Commentary I look at how our understanding of security in Europe is shiftingšŸ‘‡

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šŸ”® Sunday Commentary: What is it Good For?
War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Edwin Star - War (what is it good for?) The war in Europe has forced many European nations to rethink their understanding of security. NATO is finding its mojo again. The Russian commentariat elite have lost their composure, as Julia Davis’ exceptional…
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🧵 Welcome our AI overlords
Loved this publication from DeepMind: Democratic AI, an experiment to design a social mechanism of allocation of resources that would be preferred by a majority. The system trained a deep reinforcement learning agent on human feedback about societal wealth allocation. The outcome was neither a dog-eat-dog libertariana or an aggressive egalitarianism. Rather, the winning configuration of societal resources redistributed funds to ā€œpeople in proportion to their relative rather than absolute contribution,ā€ taking into account initial endowments. Secondly, the system ā€œespecially rewarded players whose relative contribution was more generous, perhaps encouraging others to do like…

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