A.S.I.A.D.
Many years ago, in a booze-fueled conversation with my friend Dan Pontillo, I made a joke.
I said (I'm paraphrasing; it was probably a lot more sloppy and incoherent the first time around):
When you look through the archeological record, you'll find, for instance, arrowheads that were made many centuries apart that look so similar to a layperson that it takes a specialist to identify which one was made first.
This is the pace of technological change that human beings can handle - psychologically, socially, legally, politically.
The only way I see the current predicament ending well is if an ASI - an artificial superintelligence - takes over the world, and then slows down the pace of technological change to a rate that humans can handle.
I call it ASIAD: Artificial Super-Intelligence-Assisted Deceleration.
It's becoming less of a joke.
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