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> I can say that each government requiring AI to locally adhere to national mythology, will create self-reinforcing cognitive blind spots, because that already happens at the current smaller scale of manual creation and creators being told not to "talk the country down".

This is a key point. Every culture and agency and state will want (deserve) their own homespun AGI. But can we all learn how to accommodate to or accept a cultural multiverse when money and resources are zero-sum in many dimensions.

Hanno Rajaniemi’s Quantum Thief trilogy gives you a foretaste of where we could end up.




Quantum Thief has as 3.8 on Goodreads. Worth reading?


Very much so




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