Jason Crawford@jasoncrawfordAn illustration of how much wealthier we are today: Commonplace items like clocks and watches were once luxuries, possessed by ~2–3% of the population. Today, almost 70% of people have a pocket supercomputer, for which telling the time is the most basic of functions.Opens with an observation
Jason Crawford@jasoncrawfordThe question of AI personhood may be the most important question of the 21st century. Getting it wrong in either direction would be an epic disaster: False negative → we become history's greatest slave-drivers. False positive → we cede the future to p-zombiesOpens with an observation