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Armageddon with Everyday Astronaut and Liv Boeree

Brains

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Is There a Superintelligence? Or a Bioengineered Weapon?

Zera: I'm thinking, which one would i rather you know, which one is the least painful death? If we build a superintelligence that's able to predict and understand things far better than we can even dream of. So if that then decides, you know what? Sorry, humans, but you're done. At least there's some kind of conscious intelligence going out and like, making some utility out of the universe,. It's an insane thought. But at least something, whereas like, just some kind of awful virus that just makes everyone suffer and die. And there's no upside to that. There's literally none. He's pretty much the crime to the crime.

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