Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
The Cyborg Relationship With Super Intelligent AI
The expectation that we will be able to perpetually remain in a cyborg relationship with super intelligent AI seems fairly crazy to me. At a certain point the ape you know that that is us will be adding nothing but noise to any decision-making process, he says. The best chess players on earth have been so-called cyborgs and even if we can't contribute anything to chess anymore we could contribute right something else I do think this movie is wrestling with that exact question - does the next transcendence take place by entities that aren't human biologically based little carbon beings like Stargate?
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