Models for society when humans have zero economic value, with Jeff LaPorte
Update: 2025-01-02
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Our guest in this episode is Jeff LaPorte, a software engineer, entrepreneur and investor based in Vancouver, who writes Road to Artificia, a newsletter about discovering the principles of post‑AI societies.
Calum recently came across Jeff's article “Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank” and thought it had some good, original ideas, so we wanted to invite Jeff onto the podcast and explore them.
Selected follow-ups:
- Jeff LaPorte personal business website
- Road to Artificia: A newsletter about discovering the principles of societies post‑AI
- Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank
- Ideas Lying Around - article by Cory Doctorow about a famous saying by Milton Friedman
- PageRank - Wikipedia
- Nosedive (Black Mirror episode) - IMDb
- The Economic Singularity - book by Calum Chace
- World Chess Championship 2024 - WIkipedia
- WALL.E (2008 movie) - IMDb
- A day in the life of Asimov, 2045 - short story by David Wood
- Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing? - by Tim Harford, BBC
- Responsible use of artificial intelligence in government - Government of Canada
- Bipartisan House Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence - U.S. House of Representatives
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
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