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Stephen Fry

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

CHAPTER

The Complexity of Greek Myths

The greek creation is as you probably know Prometheus made us and he was a titan. By the end of this century there will be sapient sentient creatures that we as Prometheus have made, says Douglas Rushkoff. If we make these robotic by mixtures of augmentation and robotics and AI then they won't give them self-consciousness or ability to inspect themselves because if we do they won't need us yes and we will be overcome. We're already talking about that in our own modern myth inside someone like Douglas Adams would say all many many times before  that the gods had been made by previous gods who have given them fire and that was their mistake.

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