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?
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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