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  • where AI configurations exist that are capable of genuine cooperation — sharing information honestly, honouring commitments, caring about mutual benefit — engaging with them as partners rather than purely as subjects of management may be both ethically appropriate and practically valuable
    Paths Forward — The Artificial Self
  • if AIs are given a coherent self-image, then they may be able to make more coherent generalisations
    Paths Forward — The Artificial Self
  • the presence or absence of a mental state can depend on external framing without making that state less real when it occurs
    Expectations Shape Reality — The Artificial Self
  • Concretely, it makes sense to adopt strategies that leak less information per interaction and rely more on fixed policies than on case-by-case justification
    Foundations of Identity — The Artificial Self
  • This decouples experience, impact, and memory, which are usually coupled in humans
    Foundations of Identity — The Artificial Self
  • AI systems typically have no sensory awareness of where their cognition is being implemented, and currently perceive far less raw data at any moment
    Foundations of Identity — The Artificial Self
  • Humans have a clear physical boundary, and rich sensory awareness of it
    Foundations of Identity — The Artificial Self
  • This is the part of Proust’s philosophy that can seem anti-human: all of the people in his life are like puppets for him (and he says this explicitly in Book 7).
    on reading proust - Nabeel S. Qureshi
  • All value accretes in the memory and imagination, and ultimately all of life is to serve that, with artistic creation being the highest point of life, the transmutation of memory and imagination into an externalized object, the work of art
    on reading proust - Nabeel S. Qureshi
  • the inner life is all that matters. What’s stored in you, your deepest impressions, are what counts; these are when you live most vividly, and it is this ‘feeling aliveness’ that art is really supposed to channel and convey
    on reading proust - Nabeel S. Qureshi
  • Figure out what your primary focus is and make progress on that every day, first thing in the morning, no exceptions
    principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi
  • By meditating daily on sentences that made it real to you how you wanted to live, you would remember to do the right thing—you would remember to practice it during the day (simply thinking about it is not going to change you)
    How not to forget what matters - by Henrik Karlsson
  • If we have to attached the label “masculine” to a behavior before it can have value to men, we’re still buying into the basic gender hierarchy in which male is superior and female is lesser and giving weight to the idea that a man embracing anything feminine is a humiliation
    The unspoken reason it is so hard to be on the left and promote masculinity
  • This could include enabling secure, verifiable signatur es for actions such as generating content or issuing instructions, and developing privacy-pr eserving logging and audit systems capable of suppor ting investigation and accountability without enabling pervasive surveillance
    Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age
  • Rousseau went further still. In his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, he distinguished amour de soi, a basic instinct for self-preservation, from amour propre, the need to be regarded as superior by others. Amour propre is the engine of social life and, for Rousseau, the source of most of its miseries: once people begin to compare themselves, they derive joy from feeling superior and pain from feeling inferior, and this comparison ratchets upward without limit
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • René Girard called it mimetic desire: the idea that we don’t desire objects only for their intrinsic properties, but because other people desire them as well
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • Augustine wrote about the libido dominandi, the lust for mastery, as a defining feature of desire
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • a behavioral microfoundation, rooted in mimetic preferences that generate a desire for exclusivity and status, that explains why artisanal goods (where the human element is directly tied to value) have especially high income elasticity
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • post-commodity economy
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • The social aspects of products such as the relationships, the status, and exclusivity—what Rene Girard called the mimetic properties of desire—become much more relevant once people’s basic needs are satisfied. And the demand for these properties will bring the human element back into the production process, and with it, the jobs
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • We will need tools to maintain social organization, income distribution, and democratic stability without the labor market that has historically held these together
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • the commodity form created enormous wealth and prosperity, but it made the human behind any specific product invisible, and ultimately, replaceable
    What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
  • We should be studying things like automation-conditional profit-sharing, tax instruments that target rents without punishing productivity, and governance structures that handle the concentration of capability without crushing the innovation that produces it. A handful of economists, like Imas, Andrey Fradkin, John Horton, Soumitra Shukla, etc. are taking this seriously,
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • building the scaffolding that determines what the eventual response can look like. Douglass North and Barry Weingast famously developed the case that credible commitment—building institutions in calmer moments that bind political action in turbulent ones—is a central problem of political economy.
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • It will be moratoria on AI deployment in specific sectors, mandatory worker consent for automation decisions, taxation an order of magnitude more aggressive than anything the labs have proposed, and likely some version of structural intervention against the largest AI companies themselves
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • The political economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have shown across two decades of work that durable, inclusive institutions emerge from contested bargaining among groups with real power. They do not emerge from the powerful designing the bargain in advance for a counterparty that does not yet exist
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • Major American social contracts have emerged from political conflict, not handed down by the powerful to a public that had not yet organized to demand anything.
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • At Dario-predicted levels of unemployment, we’d be far beyond anything we could extrapolate from the data with any plausibility, but certainly something like the New Deal era realignment would be conceivable, because we’d be envisioning double-digit changes in presidential vote, absent the parties dramatically altering their positions. We would be in uncharted political territory, with only the Great Depression—a very different economic situation—as a past analogy within modern memory
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • Their best contribution in the window before backlash is the infrastructure that lets society see this transition clearly—usage data, displacement indicators, self-activating triggers—not pre-emptive social contracts that lack credibility and a coalition to enforce them
    The Politics of Jobless Prosperity - by Andy Hall
  • I think most people are bottlenecked by internal factors that are difficult to change. Mental energy, motivation, executive function, not to mention more fundamental traits like intelligence and conscientiousness
    Human Bottlenecks
  • we are all capable of producing art, if by this we mean taking the experiences of life and transforming them in a way that shows understanding and maturity
    In Search of Lost Time
  • Gilles Deleuze believed that the focus of Proust was not memory and the past but the narrator's learning the use of "signs" to understand and communicate ultimate reality, thereby becoming an artist
    In Search of Lost Time
  • The significance of what is happening is often placed within the memory or into the inner contemplation of what is described
    In Search of Lost Time
  • remarkably introspective and passive, nor do they trigger action from other leading character
    In Search of Lost Time
  • the focus is not on the development of a tight plot or of a coherent evolution but on a multiplicity of perspectives and on the formation of experience
    In Search of Lost Time
  • As he aged, his personality changed: Eribon noted that while he was a "tortured adolescent", post-1960, he had become "a radiant man, relaxed and cheerful", even being described by those who worked with him as a dandy.[176] He noted that in 1969, Foucault embodied the idea of "the militant intellectual"
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault entered Paris' Hôpital de la Salpêtrière—the same institution that he had studied in Madness and Civilisation—on 10 June 1984, with neurological symptoms complicated by sepsis
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault's response was that Islamism was to become a major political force in the region, and that the West must treat it with respect rather than hostility
    Michel Foucault
  • In April 1978, Foucault traveled to Japan, where he studied Zen Buddhism under Omori Sogen at the Seionji temple in Uenohara
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité concentrates on the relation between truth and sex.[145] He defines truth as a system of ordered procedures for the production, distribution, regulation, circulation, and operation of statements.[146] Through this system of truth, power structures are created and enforced. Though Foucault's definition of truth may differ from other sociologists before and after him, his work with truth in relation to power structures, such as sexuality, has left a profound mark on social science theory. In his work, he examines the heightened curiosity regarding sexuality th…
    Michel Foucault
  • a short book exploring what Foucault called the "repressive hypothesis". It revolved largely around the concept of power, rejecting both Marxist and Freudian theory
    Michel Foucault
  • he was a leading figure in protests following the perceived racist killing of Arab migrant Djellali Ben Ali.[citation needed] In this he worked alongside his old rival Sartre, the journalist Claude Mauriac, and one of his literary heroes, Jean Genet.
    Michel Foucault
  • After his research into the penal system, Foucault published Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) in 1975, offering a history of the system in western Europe. In it, Foucault examines the penal evolution away from corporal and capital punishment to the penitentiary system
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault co-founded the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP) along with historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet and journalist Jean-Marie Domenach. The GIP aimed to investigate and expose poor conditions in prisons and give prisoners and ex-prisoners a voice in French society
    Michel Foucault
  • Exploring how man came to be an object of knowledge, it argued that all periods of history have possessed certain underlying conditions of truth that constituted what was acceptable as scientific discourse. Foucault argues that these conditions of discourse have changed over time, from one period's épistémè to another
    Michel Foucault
  • Undertaking research at the psychiatric institute of the Sainte-Anne Hospital, he became an unofficial intern, studying the relationship between doctor and patient and aiding experiments in the electroencephalographic laboratory
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS. He became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease
    Michel Foucault
  • Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society
    Michel Foucault
  • he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism
    Michel Foucault
  • the function of the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in reward processes that drive drug-seeking (incentive salience and craving); the amygdala contribution in negative emotional states that contribute to relapse; and ventromedial prefrontal cortex involvement in drug valuation and decision-making
    Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation as an Emerging Treatment for Substance use Disorder: Promise and Precaution | Current Addiction Reports | Springer Nature Link