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E13: Kevin Kelly on Multiple Futures, AI, and Becoming Better Humans

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

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The Evolution of Humanity

In a certain sense, we are becoming, as I have long said, we've invented our humanity. We invented ourselves. And we will continue to do that. But there are many, many attributes that we have of living in this kind of wet cell, biological, self-reproducing things. As we're making these robots, we've come to understand that the kind of power density of a human is quarter horsepower and 60 watt brain. It's going to be a long time before any kind of a robot will be able to operate at those low energy levels. So yes, so we may continue to yourself, but we may not necessarily diverge very much from this miraculous machine that we

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