
Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
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Boston Dynamics Robots
Some people are terrified by of course, 1997 was a time just before the catastrophists when it came to artificial intelligence really gained ascendancy. It is what we are swimming in among public intellectuals that these robots are a sign of the end times. They're definitely going to become terminators so we're told or something like that. We have to really control them. So certainly these things are animated. These Boston dynamics robots, what people can do with robotics today is absolutely phenomenal. You knock them over and they get back up again. They're basically as good as people now. Some people actually have an emotional reaction to seeing a robot being pushed over as if the robot can actually suffer or
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