Start Up No.2674: the AI boosters looking to replace humanity, the casino economy, an anti-snatch iPhone feature?, and more

Climate change is taking rice-growing areas above the temperature at which it will grow, but and evolution isn’t keeping pace. CC-licensed photo by Toshiyuki IMAI on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 10 links for you. Chopsticks. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity? • Vox Sigal Samuel: » AI successionism has been gaining ground among technologists over the past decade. In 2015, Google co-founder Larry Page famously accused Elon Musk of “speciesism” because Page thought we should let digital minds take over, and Musk disagreed. The successionist vision has been amplified by the advent of effective accelerationism (e/acc) in 2022. Its founder, Guillaume Verdon — the physicist more colorfully…