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Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology
From the New World
What Are the Factors That Lead People Into Thinking Like This?
I think that this is a whole enlightenment model, right? Because the enlightenment model rests on the kind of metaphysics of doubt. This leads to a worldly which humans are alone, right? Humans are, maybe you've got some kind of deist God, but he kind of, he sits out there and either doesn't do anything. He's best understood as a kind of prime mover and then it's humans and animals who are at the top of the food chain. And what makes humans so great is how smart they're able to use their reason to understand the universe. The average human will not be confident of besting an AI in any particular task.
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