From AI Tools to AI Philosophy: Navigating the Biggest Shift of Our Time
Three months into our AI Blockbuster journey, we've covered everything from Claude Code to infinite prompting. But in Class 11, I took us deeper—into the philosophical foundations that are actually driving the people building AI.
This wasn't just another "how-to" session. It was about understanding the competing worldviews shaping AI's development and how those philosophies should influence your own strategic decisions. We explored the tension between effective altruism (with its "P-doom" calculations), effective acceleration (e/acc), and transhumanism—movements that most people haven't heard of but that are directly influencing the minds behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major labs.
Why does this matter for you? Because the stories we tell ourselves about AI's future fundamentally change what we choose to do today. Whether you see AI as just another tool or as something approaching a new species will completely a…
