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Episode 1 - David Brin on the History and Future of AGI
The Mindplex Podcast
The Pyramid of Power Is Inherently Delusional
David Wheeler: All of the intelligent life forms that I have seen are delusional. It's like the Apollo astronauts landing on the moon were almost killed by delusional reports of a flat spot where there was a crater right below them and Neil Armstrong had to take over. Take a look at the engineered systems that are not AGIs that we've already developed. They are all prone to delusion, he says. The dream of prophetic perspicacity has always been a failed dream according to Wheeler.
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