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

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Is It Cartesian Doubt or Is the Floor Gonna Be There When I Get Out of Bed in the Morning That's a Stupid Stupid Question

Doubt industry seems to comfortably brush shoulders with the stem wet dream industry yeah totally and i i also think one of the things that bothers me about it is just that it's these doubts this constant doubting and critiquing is premised on. I was reminded of you know in the 50s and 60s you would see these advertisements for like refrigerators on tv and they would say things like the miracles of science right? No one would do that anymore because no one believes in that kind of simplistic optimistic view of of science, he says.

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