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

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Singularity

Self-awareness is the moment when a computer becomes able to improve itself without thinking about it. The singularity would be where such an advanced computer can figure out solutions to problems we have in the world that we never expected, he says. "They might cure cancer based on the information they have because they're so much better advanced"

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