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Part 2 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#298)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Are They Already Here?

David Wheeler: I see two different camps. People that don't want to live forever and people that do wants to live forever. He says it's much more prudent for advanced intelligence to be here, but in the avatar form or artificial form. But why wouldn't that presuppose as recently canceled past guest on the podcast Nick Bostrom has suggested the superintelligence that will proliferate?Wheeler: We almost have to have the burden to falsify that such an intelligence isn't already here creating us in a simulation.

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