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

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Singularity Is Not an Inevitability

"I am a proponent of if I think this singularity happens it's going to be something called the dumb singularity where the machine decides on a goal and then just continues to improve towards that goal but that it just ends up like wiping out life accidentally in the process" "This is probably what billionaires like billionaires are bored because there are already billionaires like there's nothing to do except become more of a billionaire," he says. 'It's PR so alienated from life that the only purpose they can conceive of themselves as having is to extend life indefinitely It's PR they're like mythol'

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