{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/d1a6ddca-f102-4b5c-8d87-630132fe5aaa/6a7ccd4f7cf3c58886af893e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"[2.9] Building Silicon Eden","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/614dadb9772a06c8466159a2/1786563743030-f7f4582d-f7d8-4176-9a61-fc0fbd0d4173.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The world is barreling towards disaster on many fronts. Crises include: climate change, depopulation, government debt, sagging welfare states, housing affordability, healthcare affordability, political polarization, government paralysis.</p><p><br></p><p>By 2050 they will all be irrelevant, as will the structures trying to grapple with them.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>SOURCES:</u></strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Kokotajlo, Daniel, et al. <em>AI 2027</em>. ai-2027.com. </li><li>Kokotajlo, Daniel. \"What 2026 Looks Like.\" 2021.</li><li>Amodei, Dario. \"Machines of Loving Grace.\" 2024.</li><li>TechTimes. \"OpenAI GPT-5 Biological Risk Classification.\" July 27, 2026.</li><li>Axios. \"The AI Titans' Biggest Private Fear.\" July 24, 2026.</li><li>Center for a New American Security (CNAS). \"AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks.\" August 2024.</li><li>AI Incident Reporting Act. 2026.</li><li>AI Kill Switch Act. 2026.</li><li>Schneier, Bruce. \"AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged.\" Schneier on Security, July 2026.</li><li>DeepMind. \"AlphaFold: Five Years of Impact.\" 2024.</li><li>Bostrom, Nick. \"The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents.\" <em>Minds and Machines</em>, 2012.</li><li>Bostrom, Nick. \"Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development.\" <em>Utilitas</em>, 2003.</li><li>Vinge, Vernor. <em>A Fire Upon the Deep</em>. Tor Books, 1992.</li><li>Freitas, Robert A., Jr. \"A Self-Reproducing Interstellar Probe.\" <em>Journal of the British Interplanetary Society</em>, vol. 33 (1980): 251–264.</li><li>Wikipedia. \"Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.\"</li><li>Oxford Academic. Book chapter on William Crookes and the wheat-supply crisis (1898 address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science).</li><li>Jevons, William Stanley. <em>The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines</em>. Macmillan, 1865.</li><li>Ricardo, David. \"On Machinery.\" Chapter 31, <em>On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation</em>, 3rd ed. John Murray, 1821.</li><li>United Kingdom. <em>Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration</em>. 1904.</li><li>Vinge, Vernor. \"The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era.\" </li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Erik Fogg"}