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The Technium: Epizone AI: Outside the Code Stack

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Thesis: The missing element in forecasting the future of AI is to understand that AI needs culture just as humans need culture. One of the most significant scientific insights into understanding our own humanity was the relatively recent insight that we are the product of more than just the evolution of genes. While we are genetic descendents of some ape-like creatures in the past, we modern humans are also molded each generation by a shared learning that is passed along by a different mechanism outside of biology. Commonly called “culture”, this human-created environment forms much of what we consider best about our species. Culture is so prevalent in our lives, especially our modern urban lives, that it is invisible and hard to recognize. But without human culture to support us, we humans would be unrecognizable. A solo, naked human trying to survive in the prehistoric wilderness, without the benefit of the skills and knowledge gained by other humans, would rarely be able to learn fa

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