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ia life My Dinner with Rupert By Michael Wolff Stewart Brand Mitch Kapor Rupert kept taking. He grew more ex
nterey. Among those emerging from the Gulfstream jets were Steve Case, Nathan Myhrvold, Jeff Bezos, Steve UPSIDE Riggio, Danny Hillis, Bran Ferren, Douglas Adams, Terry Gilliam, Kai Krause, and Joichi Ito. Fortunately, famed industry pioneer and gossip David Bunnell was there taking notes (with a pen, by the
window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre
the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre
the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
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