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Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI

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The Techno Solutionism of Plato's Republic

Some people say that many singularitarians, transhumanists, and other technocrats, even like Elon Musk, have said that. Massimo: I don't trust these people at all. They are going to do what they've done so far, which is their own profit and their own exploitation of the rest of us. So can we come up with technological solutions to our problems? Yes,. But that isn't the question. The question is, we will also keep creating problems technologically, because we're not wise. We don't act with wisdom. It's about how to make people more conscious of the fact that they need to practice virtue. And by the way, yes you said

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