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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Balance Between Selfishness and Altruism?
"I have extraordinary negative respect for iron-rend. Negative... What's a negative respect? But when I worked with a company called Genesions, which was evolving flies to have extraordinary long lives in Southern California." "There are evolutionary roots to individual and group selection leading to a mix of selfishness and altruism ... but still, there's probably limits that are given by our biology," he says. 'If you don't have some structure keeping people from screwing each other over, they're going to do it' "'The universe has a sense of humor in that kind of way.' That fits in somehow into this whole absurd existence,'" the author adds.
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