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Excellent Advice For Living: Kevin Kelly On Wealth, AI, Optimism, & The Future

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Impossibility of Unplugging Technology

There's no evidence at all of anything being exponential in the real world right now. To have something that is smarter and smarter through its own training, to have some effect on the world, it has to do something in the world. What's it going to do? I don't know. Its impact is the fact that other people are reading it. Humans are translating that into the world. They're putting out whatever it is. So in the sense that it still needs us, the idea that it can be independent is an abstraction that just, it's a fantasy that we can imagine, but it doesn't have any bearing in the actual real world.

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