Gradual Disempowerment
Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from...
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover...
Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from...
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover...
Gradual disempowerment | 80,000 Hours
The proliferation of advanced AI systems may lead to the gradual disempowerment of humanity, even if efforts to prevent them from becoming power-seeking or scheming are successful. Humanity may be incentivised to hand over increasing amounts of control to AIs, giving them power over the economy, politics, culture, and more. Over time, humanity's interests may be sidelined and our control over the future undermined, potentially constituting an existential catastrophe. There's disagreement over how serious a problem this is and how it relates to [other concerns about AI alignment](https://80000hours.o
The Laws of Simplicity / John Maeda
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
« La transition alimentaire est indispensable à la survie de l’espèce humaine »
TRIBUNE. Les pouvoirs publics seuls sont en mesure de favoriser un changement profond et généralisé dans les habitudes des citoyens par la promotion de solutions de remplacement à l’alimentation carnée, relèvent, dans une tribune au « Monde », les philosophes Florence Burgat et Jean-Claude Monod.
« La transition alimentaire est indispensable à la survie de l’espèce humaine »
TRIBUNE. Les pouvoirs publics seuls sont en mesure de favoriser un changement profond et généralisé dans les habitudes des citoyens par la promotion de solutions de remplacement à l’alimentation carnée, relèvent, dans une tribune au « Monde », les philosophes Florence Burgat et Jean-Claude Monod.
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
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Grow like Trees: An Organic Approach to Societal Regrowth
2026 is the year that system breakdown became impossible to deny. Democratic norms, societal norms, rule of law, the fabric of the social contract tearing as we watch. Or hide, unwilling or unable to face the unravelling. The hopeful among us see opportunity through the dark. Tentatively or boldly we
Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good
Rather than taking AI as a central focus, this paper treats it as diagnostic of deeper contradictions. AI intensifies extractivism while being unable to deliver on its promises, and its rampant scaling of energy and resource demands heralds a form of ‘total mobilisation’. This paper proposes decomputing as a programme for pushing back against such technocratic nihilism. Decomputing adopts a degrowth framework and advocates for reclaiming agency through deautomatisation and people’s councils, in order to develop convivial alternatives that centre an ethics of care. It is a philosophical and tactical response to the wider crisis of care induced by the collapse of existing systems. Decomputing proposes a prefigurative praxis for those experiencing ruptures in the infrastructures of everyday life, while minimising the opening for an authoritarian turn or war economy. Rather than capitulating to an increasingly fascistic world order, decomputing advocates a shift in the idea of order itself, one that means challenging the idea that ever more advanced tech is synonymous with progress. The paper argues that reclaiming critical infrastructures can be decoupled from the collapse of the general technopolitical regime, and makes a plausibility argument informed by destituent power and largely forgotten British cybernetics. Where the Luddite call was to ‘put down all machinery hurtful to the Commonality’, the goal of decomputing is the infrastructuring of the common good.
Denizen
What are the narratives and paradigms that need to shift to facilitate a transition to a just, regenerative future? How do various mediums such as music, art, and film enable such changes to occur?
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The catastrophic collapse of norms against the use of force.
The State and Revolution — Chapter 5
The State and Revolution: Chapter 5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
Increlution
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
