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 For anyone interested in AI  but concerned for the future, this might be worth checking out.

 @TheGuySwann  @Svetski have you looked into The Cosmos Institute? Seems like something that would resonate with you.

https://cosmosinstitute.substack.com/p/introducing-the-cosmos-institute 
 I haven’t heard of them. Will get around to watching one day 😂 
 The TLDR is it's conceptually like Spirit of Satoshi, but for philosophy more broadly rather than just bitcoin.

Instead of training it solely on the gruel of the modern web, let's train it on the ancient wisdom of the western canon.

And instead of optimizing it for utilitarian economic outcomes, let's optimize it for human flourishing... as defined by that previously mentioned ancient wisdom. 
 Amazing 🤌🏼🤌🏼