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Pill Pod 105 - AI, Transhumanism & Silicon Valley Singularity Cults

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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What Do You Think About the Transhumanists?

i wanted to ask you what you thought about this trend these transhumanists. well we are important to ourselves goes without saying and you don't need consciousness to do that but they're very obsessed with their mortality a lot of them happen to be billionaires so i think that probably has something to do with it when you just when you have uh an amount of money that you can't possibly spend in one lifetime then the natural next thought is to go okay how can I live past this lifetime um  and they're doing some crazy shit trying to figure that out.

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