Mike KoenigsAi Accelerator and Superpower Accelerator

June 13, 2023

Name: June 13, 2023
Uploaded: 2023-06-13T18:36:23+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Mike Koenigs
Description: Short excerpt from a spoken lecture/monologue linking the historical politics of private reading and self-directed thought to contemporary AI. The…

13 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a spoken lecture/monologue linking the historical politics of private reading and self-directed thought to contemporary AI. The speaker references Freud’s claim that Shakespeare invented inner dialogue and suggests modern tools (e.g., Agent GPT) allow people to 'have a conversation' with AI-generated internal responses.

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Okay, so you were talking how you're thinking in AI now. Well, that would be the same thing as you acquiring the ability to read in private. And, you know, and that was threatening to all sorts of.
Forces in society, not just religious, but, you know, kings and monarchs and, you know, warlords and everything. They didn't want you thinking aberrant thoughts and everything. And Freud said that probably most of modern thought really comes from Shakespeare, that Shakespeare is probably the first person who really grasped that human beings can talk to themselves. And really, you're having a conversation with results of, let's say, Agent GPT. You can now have a conversation with this. I don't even know if you.