PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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

Dec 17, 2022

01:30:29

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The AI and the Subjective Nature of Consciousness

01:44

The Magic of Ai Is Not Direct Form of Violence

01:42

Is Consciousness a Property?

01:37

Introduction

3min

You Know the Fail Papers That Are Like Completely Unreadable

2min

How to Write Good Undergrad Papers

5min

AI Plus Transhumanism Plus Singularity

2min

The Singularity

2min

Machine Learning Is a Generalized Kind of Intelligence

2min

I Think the Alpha Go Thing Speaks to How Good Human Intelligence Is

3min

Post Humanism - Can You Define It?

2min

Is Consciousness a Property?

2min

10.

What Is Consciousness?

2min

11.

The AI and the Subjective Nature of Consciousness

2min

12.

Dogs Seem to Get Kind of Boredom

5min

13.

Why Is There Such a Thing as Artificial Intelligence?

3min

14.

Is There a Difference Between a Machine and Death?

3min

15.

What Do You Think About the Transhumanists?

2min

16.

Transhumanism - I'm a Transhumanist Now I'll Go Into Stem Cell Regeneration

3min

17.

Continuity of Consciousness

2min

18.

Post-Humanism and Humanism

5min

19.

Is Post-Humanism a Moralist Victor?

4min

20.

The Singularity Is Getting Better

2min

21.

The Singularity Is Not an Inevitability

2min

22.

How to Repackage a Self-Help Agenda

5min

23.

I'm Gonna Live Forever

2min

24.

Transhumanism Is a New Form of Utilitarianism

3min

25.

The Magic of Ai Is Not Direct Form of Violence

2min

26.

I Think the Critique of Techno Utopianism and Techno Optimism in the Tech World Isn't Always a Good Thing but It's a Great Thing

2min

27.

The Techno Utopian Attitude

2min

28.

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

3min

29.

Coke's New Thing Is Real Magic

2min

30.

How to Write a Guitar

4min

31.

Getting the Right Output From an AI

2min

32.

The AI Mind Is Going to Be the New Normal

2min

33.

I Feel That Advertising Doesn't Work on Me

2min

34.

The Greatest Gamer Chair I've Ever Owned

2min

35.

How to Plan a Successful Revolution

3min

After our episode claiming that ChatGPT would destroy university education as it currently exists, we had to de-mythologize the dumb philosophy status quo of Silicon Valley and its weird mix of objectivism, stoicism, and effective altruism. References from https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularity All episodes and exclusive videos at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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