AI Won’t Make Our Minds Useless According to 400 Years of History
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AI Won’t Make Our Minds Useless According to 400 Years of History

C1AdvancedNovember 1, 202626 min
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What if abundant intelligence makes human ambition expand rather than human relevance disappear? NLW explores Venkatesh Rao’s “Cognitive Mercantilism,” which uses the history of capitalism to challenge assumptions about AI and our intellectual future. From the agricultural revolution to today’s AI agents, the episode examines how cheaper intelligence could unlock new desires, new work, and possibilities we haven’t yet imagined. Source: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism Listen to the new How We Got Here with NLW: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV?si=cb76360051e...

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Around the world, people are worried about AI, not just because it might be used to hack our systems,

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Around the world, people are worried about AI, not just because it might be used to hack our systems, not even just because it might take our jobs, but instead because by making this intelligence that we've long felt unique to us abundant, we worry about what it means for our own relevance. This is not, in fact, the first time that we've dealt with these issues,

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and 400 years of economic history suggests that something different, and in fact quite wonderful, might happen instead. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's

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