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#72 The Tribe VS The Algorithm: Can We Ever Be Free Again? (with Douglas Rushkoff)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

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Humans Are the Problem, So Let's Just Get Rid of Us

There would be a sense of power in having a wolf by the ears. But i think od oame as esily like whether you to let go the wolf. It's this that we so de value. Humans its norbert weener argued about this in the fifties. He wrote a book called the human use of human beings. And he said, look, if we teach machines to use us the way we use each other, now all is lost. They're going to do it much more efficiently and totally than we do. So now i've got really two camps that are against humans. The singularitas on the one hand, who say that let's just evolve out of

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