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To beat superintelligence, the only answer is superconsciousness

Leave a Comment / Book review, General, Speaking / By Ron Immink

In a world that is moving towards superintelligence, the only answer is superconsciousness. Starting with understanding what consciousness is. And that is a lot harder than you think. A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness Hence, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness”. What and where is consciousness? There’s something here that scientists can’t touch

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#Mindcandy: Stop predicting

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, Book review, General, Newstalk, Strategy Crowd / By Ron Immink

Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” if you want to find out more. My latest book is out: STOP PREDICTING — 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming. For the

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Start-ups and AI as an experimentation machine

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AI is everywhere. And it is a perfect start-up tool. Particularly in helping answer the same fundamental questions start-ups always have: Who is my customer? What problem can I help them solve? How do I make money and build a sustainable, profitable business? “The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI” According

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Eat glass and stare into the abyss

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I am a fan of Elon, and I am a fan of Naval. That is why I picked up “The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success”. A journey through his quotes and interviews. I found it fascinating. Particularly his focus on making things. Manufacturing is underrated. AI has commoditised nearly everything else.

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Everything LEGO

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Every technology follows an abstraction curve In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Like everyone else, I got distracted by the headline. The obvious implications were for education, white-collar work and professional knowledge. If a machine could pass an MBA exam, what did that say about business schools, consultants, analysts, managers and knowledge

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The CEO as connector-in-chief

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, Book review, General, Speaking / By Ron Immink

The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The

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The gentle singularity is already here

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, Book review, General / By Ron Immink

You are waiting for a moment that is not coming. The rupture. The threshold. The date you can circle on a calendar when everything changes at once. Kurzweil promised it. The TED talks dramatised it. The science fiction films gave it a soundtrack. It did not happen that way. It never was going to. What

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The book behind the newsletter

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I got a lot of responses to my last mail with the question: what if ancient wisdom is not just philosophy? What if it is a form of advanced technology?1,400 scenario prompt editionsThose are the questions you get when you publish #mindcandy for nearly four years. The pattern that surprised me most was the one

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12 lessons from 1,400 scenario prompts

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In February 2023, I started publishing a daily scenario prompt. One signal. One question. Every day. Three and a half years later, the archive had taught me twelve lessons I did not expect. Most of what I predicted was wrong. That turned out to be the point. Here is what stuck. 1. No single signal

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Humanity is one week of energy for a superintelligence

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If there is a 1% chance that AI will kill us, should we take that risk? “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI” is very clear about the answer: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

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