Moats in AI, Real and Regulatory with Brian Chau

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Scaling Knowledge

Moritz Wallawitsch

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Scaling Knowledge is a blog and podcast about progress, epistemology, and AI. more at https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/about

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Moats in AI, Real and Regulatory with Brian Chau

Scaling Knowledge

1 hour 16 minutes 12 seconds

2 years ago

Moats in AI, Real and Regulatory with Brian Chau

We discuss qualitative and quantitative moats, midwits, altruism, egalitarianism, regulation, obstructionism and more.

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Content:

(00:00) Brian's background

(03:20) On writing

(07:05) AI doomers: steel man and critique

(14:05) Job displacement

(19:20) Signaling jobs

(28:20) Future economics of art

(31:10) Qualitative v. quantitative moats (Google doc leak)

(37:00) Midwits and conformity selection

(40:00) How to fix Midwits phenomenon (Civil service reforms)

(42:00) Why the free market selects against the free market

(46:00) Problems with regulators (FDA and co.)

(52:00) The root of Altruism

(55:00) Origin of envy

(55:25) Conspiracy theories and egalitarianism

(1:00:00) Egalitarian murders

(1:06:45) Polarization and obstructionism

(1:09:05) Obstructionism and regulation

(1:10:25) Issue polarization, affective polarization, and partisanship

(1:12:00) Education system and the Freddie deBoer case