flâneur

Séb Krier on X: "Concepts of a Plan" / X

x.com · 2,390 words · saved by 1 readers

https://t.co/7HHn2uJ61C

The kind of world a particular AI safety milieu reaches for when asked to imagine a positive future really illustrates the extent of the field's monoculture problem. But I'm going to take it at face value, and offer nine issues I have with this administrative utopia. First, I dislike scenario/table-top type fictional writing because (a) they fix some assumptions in time, so you have to basically operate within the framework and pathways offered. Dean made this point previously about an essay on the ‘permanent underclass’. It’s actually not very hard to design a scenario that implicitly…

saved by

related reading