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AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Politics: A Deep Dive with Nightmare Masterclass's Dave

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The Future of Tech

I think the cultural, I mean, one of the things that happened with when our belief in tech bros is we were too optimistic during the last heyday of like singularity talk. You start to see a split between primitivism and hyper techno optimism. Like we've hit peak oil guys actually already. It's just doesn't mean what you think it means. Basically we are now putting almost as much energy into getting oil out so that we don't have to put all the energy into redoing all of our infrastructure. We're not going to have anything that's quite as efficient as burning the energy of millions of years taken from the ground and the sun. But you might get

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