Episode 1 - David Brin on the History and Future of AGI
The Mindplex Podcast
The Fermi Paradox
Ben Affleck: The pyramidal societies all governed very badly. They were fine for the reproductive success of those guys at the top but they were really bad at governance explaining this horrible litany of disasters called history. He says we found an alternative in paraclean Athens and people should read paraclesis funeral oration from Thucydides. Affleck: We instituted reciprocal accountability. Sue Vailens is looking back at power from below. And that is how we managed to make the most creative, feckened and productive society the world ever saw.
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