{"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/6a9816ff3e79af5f48d813e1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"[2.10a] Welcome to Silicon Eden: Pt 1, The Last Man","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/614dadb9772a06c8466159a2/1788379421742-1b8615dd-82f1-4ae1-8a07-cb2cccbe4432.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Many people believe that in a the robo-communist future of superintelligent AI, humans will flourish: artists, scholars -- perhaps Burning Man 24/7. Human nature suggests a very different picture.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra</li><li>Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death.</li><li>Bostrom, Nick. Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World. Ideapress, 2024</li><li>Kosmyna, Nataliya, et al. \"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.\" arXiv:2506.08872, 2025. MIT Media Lab.</li><li>Stanković, Miloš, et al. \"Comment on: Your Brain on ChatGPT.\" arXiv:2601.00856, 2026. </li><li>Lee, Hao-Ping (Hank), Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, and Nicholas Wilson. \"The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking.\" Proceedings of CHI 2025, Yokohama.</li><li>Aguiar, Mark, Erik Hurst, and Loukas Karabarbounis. \"Time Use during the Great Recession.\" American Economic Review 103(5), 2013, 1664–1696. Sleep and TV absorb the largest share of foregone work hours.</li><li>Aguiar, Mark, and Erik Hurst. \"Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades.\" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007. Leisure up roughly 4–8 hrs/week, 1965–2003.&nbsp;</li><li>Cowen, Tyler. \"Human Life in a Post-AGI World.\" Talk at Google DeepMind, July 8, 2026. tylercowen.com. - Note Cowen disagrees significantly with me!</li><li>National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2024 results. 12th-grade reading lowest ever reported, 10 points below 1992; 4th and 8th grade at early-1990s levels.&nbsp;</li><li>Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), 2023 cycle, released Dec 2024 (NCES).&nbsp;</li><li>Bone et al. \"Reading for pleasure\" trends from the American Time Use Survey, 2003–2023. iScience, August 2025.</li><li>Aguiar, Mark, Mark Bils, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and Erik Hurst. \"Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men.\" Journal of Political Economy 129(2), 2021, 337–382.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Erik Fogg"}