Ivan Vendrov is AI researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems

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Questions discussed or for further discussions

• What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today?
• What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general?
• How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that are harmful?
• What is your take on spirituality?
• What is the intersection between the Russian Orthodox religion and meditation?
• What do Russian orthodox people do for lent?
  • Go vegan for the entire month
  • emphasis on spirituality
• What happened to the soviet union and orthodox Christianity?
• What is the word “mir”?
• What is the difference between a time of troubles and a dark age?
• Were the dark ages really dark?
• What is the relationship between centralization and golden ages?
• Who are the cypher phunks?
• What are heterogenous networks?
• What is cyborgism?
• What is your take on rationalism?
  • superintelligence
  • At its best, its a community that has the best truth orientation
  • Where do rationalism and dogma meet?
• What is post-rationalism?
• Can you be dogmatic and rationalist at the same time?
• Who were the original rationalists?
• What is bayesian reasoning?
  • How can you establish all the events that could happen?
  • Naive bayesian reasoning
• What does rationalism say about trusting others?
• What are the other sources of truth for rationalists?
• How do you convert or create knowledge?
  • The book “The social history of truth”
  • Truth or knowledge depends on a bedrock of trust and punishes liars
  • In 18th century only gentlemen could speak truth because they had “F-U” money
• Why does knowledge follow a cyclical pattern of openness and dogma and how do they interact?
• Can a bureaucracy last longer than 300 years old?
• Can knowledge paradigms last long?
• Will technology allow us to establish non-bureaucratic systems that can stay flexible?
• Is cultural knowledge dying?
• How do you preserve cultural knowledge?
• How do you preserve knowledge that is implicit and hard to make explicit?