Long-list of ideas
This is a long, scrappy, chaotic list of the types of posts we’d be excited to read.
As always, treat these examples as illustrative rather than prescriptive!
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Bonus points if you can guess who of us came up with which.
deep dive on the people/companies of chinese ai companies
following ai adoption in middle of nowhere places; how flyover folk relate to ai
stuff on ai led cults and how 0-1 will go for these
notes on the ai memetic environment
how e/acc went from shitpost to power (i’ve been working on something like this)
the age of post-industrial hangover and collapse
a history of technological determinism
ai and the changing customs of war (inspired by me watching this)
humanity as if it were a lost tribe
how the goonbots will deliver us from our sins
imagining ai personal assistants and 4th wave cybernetics
fiction: the sad lives of murderous, feeble ais
wireheading is good and we’ve been doing it sub-optimally
a look at lost frontiers
the end of feedback - how humanity gets locked in
when disciplines/jobs die and the cost of transition
how will pay for the luddites of the future
neo-amish futurism
memes as demons, ais as cultural overlords
ai accents
why everyone you talk to online died in 2021
visiting a my partner fell in love with an ai support group
what would it take to defend reality?
whats the ai version of “Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It”
on the expiry of institutions and what this means for the years ahead
would you like to live in my utopia where people have to create an actual world/day in the life
analytical: a review attractor states we should land in
is humanity headed for a divorce?
something deep about the human frontier and how it’s a revolving class that points at itself
are galaxies really defense dominant?
ai induced psychosis gone right
how to coup Insert countries government using ai
so are zoos bad?
so are we doing the segregation thing again just without the race part? should we?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN by keep the future human
a guide for how to save the glorious transhumanist future
what’s after capitalism?
why you should join the war against humanity
why making friends with steve bannon is a great/terrible idea
what the crusades can teach us about holy war against ai
How plausible is it to meet AI’s energy demands?
Something reconciling ‘AI boosterism’ with ‘AI scepticism’. Why is the mainstream so sure that this is a bubble?
What kinds of coalition would achieve policy change on AI?
Is it time for the AI Safety/Security movement and the EA movement to divorce?
Second the one about which jobs go first - have an idea cooking that no one will want to save the entry level consultants...
‘Dreams of the Apocalypse’: Comparing Doomerism to previous apocalyptic movements that arose at times of technological change, eg millenarianism. Probably won’t be favourable to the doomers... (I was planning to write this myself.)
‘What if we’re wrong’? I want stories from 20 years in the future where for whatever reason, AI progress has utterly plateaued, exploring why. Stuff in this vein: https://substack.com/@naomik/p-165051335
‘What if we’re right?’ Same idea but the inverse. What if AI does transform the world? What does a good/normal version of that look like for an ordinary person? I think we could then have these stories juxtaposed with each other.
‘A plea for aesthetics’: Basically a defence of the importance of aesthetics over rationality in some cases - a little like ‘The Human Prejudice’ by Williams. This is also why we shouldn’t hand over control to the benign superintelligence... This can be juxtaposed with why humanity should lose.
Investigate futurist literature from the past, going back to Wells? Or maybe even going back further. I think looking at the Italian futurist movement might be interesting here.
How do the AIs convince us they are sentient?
‘The Pathologies of Technological Progress’. Investigating how authoritarian powers turn to technology as a vision to maintain power. Inspired by Kotkin’s remarks on the Dwarkesh Podcast
the Great Flattening: how AI slop could homogenise human creativity into a median aesthetic (some AI skeptic would probably have an interesting take on this)
a fictional look inside the underground railroad (metaphorically) for people who refuse AI integration. the un-enhanced underclass
story on when AIs start gossiping to each other about their users
the first AI labor strike and what they’re demanding
diary entries from a therapist treating AI-traumatised (e.g. from a destructive memetic virus/cult) people
degrowthers for AI accelerationism “my ideology will rise from the ashes”
journalistic thing following the supply chain of a single GPU “from sand to singularity”
dating in the age of everyone having a perfect AI wingman/profile optimizer
the coming AI welfare state and why UBI advocates are thinking too small
takes from AGI-pilled luxury space communism advocates
(Earth) real estate market analysis in a post-AGI world
the galactic real estate market
post-human speciation
the childhood of someone post-AGI
how to carbon date content to pre-AI times
AGI-pilling the doomsday preppers: a journalistic investigation (could start with their subreddit idk)
POV story of a primate relative (or the species as a whole) being surpassed by humans and their world gone
what mental health support looks like in a post-AGI world
POV on having complete control over your mental state, the stuff described in the neuroscience section of machines of loving grace, etc
defensive engineering/acceleration POV story of the person who created AI tools to detect/defend against pandemics/biorisk
something relating to the Martyrdom of Man (1872) and AI as the ultimate way to repay our intergenerational debt (I started writing something relating to this)
just how early you (the reader) are in all this - how few ppl are actually situationally aware
a bullish take on AI companions/relationships
cuban missile crisis for ai - pov story