Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
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David Dalrymple discusses the concept of wisdom as a necessary quality for a worthy successor in the context of AI.
Davidad (David Dalrymple) recently stepped down as a Programme Director at the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), where he led work on mathematically verifiable, "safeguarded" AI. Now unaffiliated, he joins the show to make his most direct case yet for what a worthy successor actually requires: not intelligence, not sentience, not survival - wisdom. David defines wisdom as the apprehension of normative facts, the same way knowledge is the apprehension of descriptive facts, an...
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