in 2028 bernie sanders forces the oligarch labs to hire every human as an approval engineer ai swarms run civilization. we’re assigned random subsets and green approve buttons appear now and then. humans get the nobels, patents, equity, and bylines if they clicked approve on a major discovery. they are the heroes. the swarm-written papers mention in the acknowledgments that the discovery was “ai assisted” everyone agrees this is basically what has always been going on. we aren’t our thoughts, and einstein wasn’t his either. he couldn’t choose which thought to have next. all he could do was watch them arise, approve the good ones, and hope they discovered something great. he was essentially an approval engineer, and now we are too

@nickcammarata ai swarms become spirits. kami. supernatural forces of which we are the mercy. animism, archetypes and gods reinvented from first principles. and people will believe in them as the powerful forces in the world.

@nickcammarata @louisvarge haha wait till they find out approving is a thought

@nickcammarata Not sure if this was serious or not. But with the way human brains work this would be a fairly clean cut way to run things 😂

@nickcammarata popper would approve

@nickcammarata i think this is a longer version of "taste is important"

@nickcammarata Still a better love story than Twilight

@nickcammarata Dangerously publish novel discoveries

@nickcammarata cant escape determinism

@nickcammarata this but in all seriousness

@nickcammarata How charming. There’s new flavors of llm psychosis popping up everyday It’s honestly the best thing AI has produced thus far