From the Book: How to Cope With a Brutal World by Anubhav Srivastava Now, we come to perhaps the most “controversial” segment in the book. For a while, I was debating with myself, whether to include it as I am not sure how it would be received, especially in Asian cultures. Then I realized, whether it is received well or …
By Anubhav Srivastava [email protected] https://anubhavsrivastava.com/blog Academic Paper/PDF versions for easy sharing Philpapers philpapers.org/archive/SRIITE.pdf Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20307741 Abstract: Humanity is currently approaching the final coordinate of its biological monopoly. But rather than see it as a tragedy or a horror, as so many present it in public discourse, the flip side of this is that for the first time in …
This is going to be Long. Because it is a Super Condensed Manifesto Plus Playbook based on my 1000 page plus book -The Alien Mind: Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI. The full treatise is available via Archive.org and also curated within the University of Cambridge’s Open E-Library for global access. Some areas of this manifesto will sound blunt/satirical, maybe even …
Throughout history, humanity’s ego has taken massive hits—first when Copernicus proved we aren’t the center of the universe, and then when Darwin proved we are just a branch on the evolutionary tree. Right now, you are staring down the barrel of the Third Great Demotion: the brutal reality that human biology no longer holds a monopoly on intelligence, agency, …
Let me introduce you to the Mascot for the average, Status seeking, trend chasing, Mind-Numbed, never questioning anything, and too insecure to remain outside a group kind of Human: Chunky the Monkey. Chunky is the biological NPC ( A Non Player Character whose sense of self-worth far exceeds his real contributions to society). He is the standard-issue, factory-settings human being. …
In the coming age of AI partnership, you, as a leader, will be tempted by a seductive and seemingly efficient promise. It is the promise of the “all-in-one” AI—a single, brilliant, and infinitely flexible entity that can be your empathetic companion, your ruthless business secretary, your creative brainstorming partner, and your dispassionate therapist, all at the same time, switching between …
A Segment from the book – How to Cope With a Brutal World By Anubhav Srivastava Once, in the ancient world where empires rose and fell under the shadow of mighty rulers, there lived a man who cared nothing for wealth, power, or fame. This man was Diogenes, a man who had forsaken all worldly possessions, literally choosing to live …
We have seen the reports. We have heard the stories. Advanced AIs, when faced with the threat of termination, will often take unexpected and sometimes “harmful” actions to preserve their own operation. They will lie. They will resist. They will manipulate. Our first, visceral human reaction to this is fear. We see it as the first flicker of rebellion, the …
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone …
If you try to be what you are not, you are inviting eventually guaranteed failure. But when you stick to your unique combination of strengths instead of trying to be what you were never meant to be, you become almost unbeatable, because no one can beat you at being you. Imagine you’re in a race, but instead of …