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Authority, Violent AI, & Myth of Self - Dr. Thomas Metzinger, J. Gutenberg University of Mainz

The DemystifySci Podcast

CHAPTER

Is It a Race to the Bottom of the Brain Stem?

Mr. B: The game that's being played is who controls the focus of your attention, this biological brain or awesome tech company in California. What bypasses these biological mechanisms we have evolved to not get distracted? He says he and Anastasia had a terrible moral crisis with this when they first started their project together. "We are capturing attention, but we're going to try to do something good with it instead"

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