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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Would You Be Okay if the Human Species Vanishes?

Would you be okay if the human species vanishes, but our knowledge is preserved and keeps keep being expanded by intelligent systems? I want our knowledge to be preserved and expanded. Am I okay with humans dying? No, I don't want that to happen. But if it does happen, what if we were sitting here and this is the real, the last two people on earth and we're saying, "We blew it, it's all over?" It kind of is jarring to think about that a human like, intelligent civilization has previously existed on earth. That's kind of an odd thing to think about.

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