An "Observatory" for a Shy Super AI?

An "Observatory" For a Shy Super AI?A (Mostly) Playful Thought ExperimentRob ReidAug 06, 2024158ShareThis is the transcript of my latest podcast episode, which is right here on Apple Podcasts, and can also be grabbed via any other podcast app. It’s an 80-minute monologue, which makes this post quite long for my Substack. Because I tend to be a very precise writer, I’ll also note that this will “read” like me speaking, not writing. As in, there are many sentence fragments, and other artifacts of the spoken word. So I hope the grammarians out there - above all my 8th-grade English teacher Jack Caswell - will indulge me in this!This is a monolog. And a thought experiment about AI. Specifically, an eerie relationship we may soon enter with a powerful and quite mysterious AI.

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