Present company excepted, the smartest (somewhat distinguished from wisest) people I know online are increasingly talking about AI more than anything else. This would be Scott Alexander, Steve Hsu, Dwarkesh Patel - plus some I listen to less - Elon Musk, Marc Andreassen, Tyler Cowan. However, the smartest people I know IRL talk about it much less, perhaps because many of us are old, and sense that this will be a late-in-life tool only, not something we will have expertise in. We won't be doing our own repairs on this Philco, we'll just be turning it on.
The result is that I am reading less of the smartest people I know, which doesn't seem wise of me. OTOH sumus quod sumus, we are what we are, and we may learn in the judgement that the great Christian teacher of the age was only a couple of miles away most our lives, but we weren't sufficiently attentive to the Holy Spirit.
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