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FBL105: Gerd Leonhard - Empowering Humanity Towards a Good Future

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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The Perversion of the Purpose of AI and Virtuality

The main thing that bars me there is the promise of a great simulation being so easy and instant. It's like Blade Runner 2049 the scene where he has the girl hanging from the ceiling and the hologram and then he gets a fancy device but she's still a hologram. That is because a simulation is just that. A simulation of love, a simulation of empathy isn't love and empathy. It is a simulation. And so this whole discussion of AI and virtuality and everything is really about the synthetic world that we could create with this. Like you know Zukkab who said about the metaverse there is a time coming where we're going to spend the majority of our

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