The Future of Human Intelligence

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I think what you're saying there about the potential for like augmented humans brings up something else, right? Because in the Altman piece, you were also talking about how they kind of would like to see or they imagine that we're going to see more of kind of emerging between human and machine. But also you hear people like Altman and Elon Musk talking about like, maybe we live in a simulation and maybe this is just all a big computer. I don't know. It seems to be wild on one hand, but then on the other hand, you can see that if you think that humans are like machines,. Then maybe like the stakes are a bit lower in that sense because,

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss tech billionaires’ embrace of pronatalism and how it’s part of a broader rationalist project to remake society and protect their privileged positions.

Julia Black is a senior correspondent at Insider and previously worked at Esquire and Vox. Follow Julia on Twitter at @mjnblack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Julia wrote about pronatalism, Lex Fridman, and Sam Altman.
Paris wrote about eugenics in Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreessen wrote “It’s Time to Build” in April 2020.
Timnit Gebru gave a presentation on the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies. Émile Torres made a thread on Twitter about it.

Support the show