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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Supreme Danger of the Technological Age
Heidegger thinks that this is the, he calls this the supreme danger of the technological age. But it's also the saving possibility because if we recognize that we never chose that, that it was given to us, but also we were implicated in its being given and we could find a way to supersede it. So optimization is not a good way to live life. If you thought that it was obviously clear that that was the relevant value, so obviously clear that it never even occurred to you to ask whether it was right to think that then you would be in danger.
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