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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of Surprise and Discontinuity

Bertrand Russell's one of the last people on Earth I would expect to have been for a preventative genocide, unless surprised by John von Neumann. Einstein was like a big Stalin fan. Smart people often go badly off the rails and come to politics. But the point I make is not so much that smart people are necessarily wise. It's just... It's the capacity for surprise and discontinuity, right?

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