Thoughts Of A Trillionaire

Sorry for the first 20 or 30min! I tried to podcast while gaming

I continue my thoughts on AI, going into the ethics and economics of AI. I talk about why GPT is not deemed as AI for some people, and how we might be able to design more ethical and egalitarian AI systems.

Today, I share some of my initial thoughts with OpenAI's ChatGPT tool. It is a very interesting and promising natural language model that allows you to talk to a computer like you would a person. Feel free to check out my older podcast about Lambda and the danger of AI chatbots: https://anchor.fm/trillionaire/episodes/LaMDA---The-bigger-problems-folks-arent-considering-about-sentient-AI-e1kctqq

Today I share some ideas for phygital technologies, as well as my thoughts on Black Panther Wakanda Forever and even a bit on a webfiction called Path of Ascension. I go into why I think it would be better to create fiction that is utopian rather than obviously flawed or cartoonishly villainous. Let's create better worlds by imagining better systems!

Finally back! Here are some updates on my activities the last 2 weeks, and some thoughts on what's going on with Twitter, Meta, and the many layoffs across big tech.

I go into some depth about the problems of social media, and utilize wisdoms and lessons from the long tail of human history to provide some ideas on how we can better design social media, the metaverse, and the internet to empower the best aspects of humanity.

I vent a bit about my car issues then get back into talking about Longtermism. I talk about how true long-term thinking requires us to change things on a more fundamental level by decentralizing power and empowering people to reach their potential.

I recap my experience talking to some highschool kids, and then get into some Longtermism ideas.

Today I share my excitement from attending the Atlanta Radical Book Fair this weekend where I got to meet some other black anarchists. I share some ideas and history on anarchism and how we can use AI/tech to further support anarchic efforts.

After hearing about how AI feels like an 'alien', I share my thoughts on how such a phrasing is really understating the reality and how truly understanding the scope of AI sheds light on the bigger problems. Computers can do things no biological creature, including aliens, can physically do. This likely extends to how they 'think' and therefore how they 'see' and behave in the world. We have to empower more transparency and access to AI to harness its more positive potential.

Prompted by a polymath meetup, today I share a rough and tangent-filled outline of what I'd write about my experience being a polymath. I delve into my childhood, my hatred, and how that turned into ambition and a deeply magical outlook on life.

My desire to generate 10 ideas a day has been reinvigorated! So today, I try to generate 10 ideas on the fly. They aren't that great, probably not even original, but I tried!

Had a stressful week! But learned a lot and got a lot of fuel for my dreams of the future. I share my car problems, my ideas on how we can build more anarchist futures via practical community building, and analyze some gospel to ponder about the role of hierarchy in religion. Is hierarchy a foundational tenement of religion or just a byproduct of the real foundation: awe and desire for humility, gratitude, or vulnerability? And check out this awesome article about solarpunk anarchism that I absolutely mangled: https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/05/02/social-anarchist-futures/

Today I get into a whole lotta stuff! First I share a bit about my week, then share some ideas about relationships and why so many people get sucked into the manosphere; then I take a longer than intended tangent into respect again, talking about the difference between respecting ones humanity vs respecting authority. Then I get into sharing some stuff about fungus-based businesses, and finally close out with a long talk about billionaires trying to escape the results of their actions, as explained by Douglas Rushkoff. Check out this Podcast: SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST: How Tech Billionaires Are Preparing for Doomsday https://player.fm/1BSPjXc

I know it's a hot topic right now, but i still wanted to share my thoughts on the queen and alladat. This is a continuation of the prior episode on respect...

Inspired by yet another Lex Fridman podcast(https://youtu.be/yImlXr5Tr8g), I talk about the Meaning Crisis, institutions, and a bit of respectability politics.

Today I share my thoughts on why philosophy is so important for the average person. I link philosophy to consciousness, and show how the lack of thought allows us to be more easily controlled, oppressed, and limited in our freedoms, and thus consciousness.

Talking about consciousness while driving home late one night. I think consciousness is a solvable hard problem if we study it as an emergent factor of systems rather than through a purely reductive lens.

Today, I vent a little about my limits and barriers around creating, then share some ideas on what I want to work on going forward. Go read my latest newsletter!! https://elijahclaude.substack.com/p/my-year-thus-far?r=1fns6&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

Though understandable, I get very frustrated with stories that mistake hierarchy for some fundamental aspect of nature or human behavior. Today, I share my learnings and ideas around the reality of hierarchy and is circumstantial appearance in human/animal behavior. I then go on to share some high level ideas and reasons why we need more stories that show the awesomeness of humans without hierarchy.