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Pill Pod 105 - AI, Transhumanism & Silicon Valley Singularity Cults

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Is Post-Humanism a Moralist Victor?

I feel like in general when I hear post-humanism sold it's often in that frame yeah. the same time do you know me to be a moralist victor? No no I don't think that you're a moralist or any other kind of person for that matter. Yeah these these transhumanists there's a Venn diagram overlap with just weird and I noticed René Girard is becoming very popular in these circles too. Because they're fucking trad weirdo because it's Catholic that's probably why. Oh but for whatever reason these ideas are popular in that Silicon Valley world partly because Peter Thiel got really interested inRené Girard. Yes that's actually what

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