The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Urban: Humanity Faces Impending Extinction or a Radical Utopian Paradigm Shift
“It's either going to be the coolest story for humans or it's the end. This is the, That is a, it is a 501 page book. And that's it. Or this is the beginning of like the new paradigm. We have a new BC AD situation. We have a BC, which is like before something t…”
Urban: Political Echo Chambers Lack Immune Systems to Filter Bad Ideas
“In, you know, in an echo chamber environment, there's no kind of like white blood cells to kill the virus, and so it just explains, it just, because dissent isn't okay over there. You know, it's not, not only is it not valued, it's very much frowned upon. So e…”
Urban: Convincing Smart People to Solve Big Problems Maximizes Impact
“If I can convince really smart people to turn their attention or their money or their time towards important things I think that that's about as big an impact as I could have as a human, because me going into it myself, that's one person.”
Urban: The Public Unfairly Reduces the Entire Tech Sector to Facebook
“People are pushing tech away, like in big quotes, because they think of tech as like just Facebook. But in reality, it's so, so, so much more.”
Urban: Bostrom's 'Superintelligence' Provides a Sufficient Foundational Base for AI
“One good book, like super intelligence in the case of AI, can give you a really, really great foundation right there, and then you can just kind of tack on information to that foundation or poke holes in that foundation, and then you end up with a solid unders…”