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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are You a Mimetic Theory, Conflict Theory Kind of Harm?
If we're close enough together to where we'd be competing, then you're getting into the world of viruses and pathogens. One of us would die off quickly through basically mass murder without even- Even accidentally. It wouldn't be a mimetic theory, conflict theory kind of harm. It would just be a von Neumann machine that was fundamentally incompatible with these kinds of self-replicating systems with faster oodle loops. Do you think about the 7.8 billion people on earth as individual little creatures, individual little organisms, or do you think of us as one organism with a collective intelligence? What's the proper framework through which to analyze it again as an alien?
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