Sitemap - 2024 - David Shapiro’s Substack
ASI is coming, work is leaving, but yes there will be ways to get "ahead"
The "Fiction-Uncertainty-Threat" Axis Underpinning Negative Reactions to AI
Why is there something rather than nothing?
The (Not So Hidden) Reason that OpenAI is Hemorrhaging Talent ($$$)
Ayahuasca: How to have a positive, transformative experience - a simple, practical guide
Epistemic Sovereignty: A Blockchain Manifesto
Deny, Defend, Depose: We are already living in a Cyberpunk Hell (and how we can fix it)
To Merge or Not to Merge? That is the question!
Healing the Mother Wound with Mother Ayahuasca
The Astronomical Math of Creativity (And its implications for AI)
The "I just realized how huge AI is!" Survival Kit
Understanding the Artificial Mind
How to Radically Reshape Society
The Art of Constructive Disagreement
That which gets measured gets managed: an Economic Agency Index
Getting from Here to There: A Post-Labor Odyssey
US v China: We're in the Geopolitical Middle Game Now
Living that Post-Labor Lifestyle - Lessons and Insights
The Solarpunk Future is Taking Shape
What the heck is "Emergence" and why is everyone talking about it?
What do I mean when I say "Post-Labor Economics" anyways?
Tech Bros are afraid of the Red Pill
Political Codependence—Not Political Nihilism—Is what this reckoning is about
The Politics of Intelligence, Meritocracy, and Equality: Tyranny of the Mid
What do Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, and Eliezer Yudkowsky have in common?
The Trifecta of Psychedelic Safety: Screening, Setting, and Support
A Post-Labor Economics Manifesto
Consciousness Emerges at the Edge of Chaos
The Grand Struggle has Reasserted Itself
Nebula Protocol: How Decentralization Might Solve Everything
How to Use Epistemic Tribal Theory: TPOT on Twitter
Literary Launchpad - Ep 001 - Character Growth Arcs
A Simpler Explanation of Why I "Retired" From AI
There and Back Again: A Sleep Odyssey
Should AI be used in art? (Yes)
AI Alignment May Not Be Necessary*
What Enterprises Are Getting Wrong About AI Adoption
SB 1047 gets Vetoed, State of AI Safety Research, and the "Ineffability of AI"?
AI Safety, Best Practices, and Regulation: The "Complex Adaptive System" View
For Prompt Engineering and LLMs, Specificity Matters
"Straight lines on a logarithmic scale"―All evidence points to an intelligence explosion
Larry Ellison wants to create an Orwellian Nightmare
How I get *almost* perfect sleep (without doing anything crazy)
"Moore's Law Squared" - Jensen Huang of NVIDIA
AI Just Went Sailing Past Human Intelligence
The Strawberry Juice is Not Worth the Squeeze
Deconstructing Doomer Arguments, One By One
The Superorganism is Growing an Exocortex!
ASI won't just fall out of the sky one day
Achieving Postnihilism via Jungian Integration and Psychedelic Retreats
The Shills and Charlatans of AI Safety
How Will ASI Actually Be Deployed?
China vs America in the Age of AI
How to Participate in the Meaning Economy
The Unspoken 0th Principle of Morality
Butterfly Effect: How a backup cleanup job led me to AI research
How I become an expert* in anything
My 90/10 Rule—How I'm so effective
Aligning Values (and the Price of Mis-alignments)
Epistemic Conversations with Claude
Metamodernism and Psychosocial Technology
Introducing New Era Pathfinders! (Special Deal for Paying Supporters!)
Welcome to the Psychedelic Renaissance pt. 3
My (Unfiltered) Take on AI Safety
Cosmic Conversations with Claude
Welcome to the Psychedelic Renaissance pt.2
AI's Economic Impact: Theory of Constraints
Welcome to the Psychedelic Renaissance pt.1
My Hypothesis about OpenAI's Hard Pivot
The Inexorability of Human Nature: Moloch Traps
The Four Horsemen of Great Fiction
Intro to the Seven Act Story Structure
Radical Alignment: Body-First Living
Systems Thinking: Thinking With Structure
Systems Thinking: Thinking With Structure, Clarity, and Purpose
Radical Alignment: Why We're Miserable (and how to fix it!)
4IR Podcast - 002 - Early Career Skills in the Age of AI + Spread of Misinformation
April Future of Humanity Webinar Info
4IR Podcast - 001 - What is going to happen?
Systems Thinking: Inside and Out
Institutionalized Incompetence