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Models for society when humans have zero economic value, with Jeff LaPorte
London Futurists
London Futurists
Models for society when humans have zero economic value, with Jeff LaPorte
Jan 02, 2025
Season 1
Episode 105
London Futurists
Our guest in this episode is Jeff LaPorte, a software engineer, entrepreneur and investor based in Vancouver, who writes Road to Artificia, a newsletter about discovering the principles of post‑AI societies.
Calum recently came across Jeff's article “Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank” and thought it had some good, original ideas, so we wanted to invite Jeff onto the podcast and explore them.
Selected follow-ups:
- Jeff LaPorte personal business website
- Road to Artificia: A newsletter about discovering the principles of societies post‑AI
- Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank
- Ideas Lying Around - article by Cory Doctorow about a famous saying by Milton Friedman
- PageRank - Wikipedia
- Nosedive (Black Mirror episode) - IMDb
- The Economic Singularity - book by Calum Chace
- World Chess Championship 2024 - WIkipedia
- WALL.E (2008 movie) - IMDb
- A day in the life of Asimov, 2045 - short story by David Wood
- Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing? - by Tim Harford, BBC
- Responsible use of artificial intelligence in government - Government of Canada
- Bipartisan House Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence - U.S. House of Representatives
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
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