
James Poulos - Tech Doomerism & Superhumanism
Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta
What's the Worst Lesson to Learn?
Technology is actually bad because it allows the worst people to talk to each other. And so why are we here? Because greedy technologists packed people's minds, and itcentivised them to go down these rabbit holes. The wokis have an answer to this: We need a new priestly class of a borderline, you know, trans humanist people am to programm the bots to make sure that the bots worship our religion. They're right that ultimately, someone's got to catechise the bots, or else the bots are going to be out of control, and they're going to be doing unintelligible things.
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