The Promethean Gambit: 5 Hidden Ways AI Could Make Global Crises Worse There is a powerful and pervasive sense of optimism that artificial intelligence holds the key to solving humanity's greatest challenges. From modeling climate change and discovering new medicines to optimizing global food supplies, AI is presented as the ultimate tool for progress. But what if these powerful tools have hidden, counter-intuitive side effects that could make things worse? What if the very logic that makes AI so effective in narrow domains creates catastrophic fragility when applied to the complex systems of the real world? A new strategic report, "AI for Global Problem Solving," explores this very "Promethean Gambit"—humanity's high-stakes wager that we can manage a tool of immense power for both progress and destruction. The report frames AI as a modern "Promethean fire" and argues that without a new framework for wisdom and foresight, our best-intentioned solut...
The potential and perils of a blockchain-based temporal currency system. If in the future the only thing of true value is time itself describe applications of Einstein's theory of relativity, such as time dilation, that may be used as part of a temporal trading strategy. It's important to note that time dilation effects predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity are very small for typical trading applications. However, there are some theoretical possibilities for using these effects in a temporal trading strategy. One potential application of time dilation is in high-frequency trading, where even small disparities in timing can lead to significant advantages in the market. In particular, if a trader were able to move a clock to a location with a stronger gravitational field, time would appear to run slower for that clock relative to clocks in weaker gravitational fields. This effect is known as gravitational time dilation and is a prediction of Einstein's theory of ge...