Social and political theorists have tied the emergence of cities to the origin of civilization since the earliest written records we have found. The perhaps four-thousand-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, which shaped and inspired later literature, including the Bible, opens on what is best understood as an extended meditation on the nature of city life. In it, a wild man named Enkidu, who is created by the gods to humble King Gilgamesh, the ruler of the city, makes his way to the great city of Ur.| Palladium Magazine
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In an interview in 2019, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained how he had to come up with the “capped profit” structure to prevent investors from getting too much of the pie because the company could “maybe capture the light cone of all future value in the universe.” This sounds like a hyperbolic rhetorical flourish to induce investor excitement. Actually, it is the straightforward sincere belief of the AI alignment community that has become the center of discourse about what recursively se...| Palladium Magazine