This is based on the Great Simplification presentation on the subject with  Daniel Schmachtenberger 00:00 - Conversations and origin of friendship 02:47 - Recap on superorganism and metacrisis 07:21 - Why is AI relevant to the metacrisis 09:30 - History of Intelligence 12:25 - Techno-optimism vs Techno-pessimism 17:55 - Narrow Boundary Focus vs Wide Boundary Focus & Competition 33:39 - Progress realists? 39:02 - Jevons Paradox 40:52 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Nth Order Effects 46:01 - Human Intelligence and AI 52:16 - Intelligence and Modeling 1:04:02 - The Difference Between Wisdom and Intelligence 1:12:41 - Chesterton’s fence 1:13:03 - Progressive and Traditionalist as Dialectics 1:18:07 - Genetics and Intelligence vs Wisdom 1:28:55 - Can we have wisdom with 8 billion humans? 1:30:59 - Plasticity of Humans and Innovation 1:38:29 - Capitalism, an early form of computing 1:42:45 - Did Anyone Invent Capitalism? 1:48:38 - General vs Narrow Artificial Intelligence ...

I'm wary of the term "evolution" - especially when it is used in a vaguely Darwinian sense to sprinkle scientific fairy dust over wild speculation. I think it makes sense to use "evolution" in a fairly narrow sense, in which we can see that some object, "thing" or situation exhibits the following qualities: It's in some "state" of current interest. The analysis of the "state" has some non-trivial explanatory power over the thing in question even when it is considered as a current, static object. The "thing" has obviously, necessarily undergone change over time - it wasn't always the same as it is now. It must have been in some other state, usually a simpler state, at some time in the past. There is strong evidence that the thing has undergone versions , where one version incorporates design features of previous versions. It is legitimate to ask what changes have taken place over time to get from the "simpler...

There are many reasons why humans are attracted to the idea of a spirit-filled Universe. "Theory of mind", which gives he brain a perception (not just a "theory") that other beings are conscious and act with intent just as we do. These days, we see this as a brain function that does not reflect reality, just as the illusion that things get smaller as they move away from us. Even our modern, scientifically-trained minds make us see life where there is movement. Another consequence of they way we are built is a survival strategy that involves manipulation of the environment (tool use being the most obvious aspect of it). We expect to control the world around us and we are frustrated at the limitation of our power to do so. It is easy to imagine that the world can be (or actually is) controlled by a mind and a mind can be persuaded to help us do things we can't do for ourselves. The illusion of time is strong in the human brain. We don't remember the past as ...