Cade Metz
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4d ago
Cade Metz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in the sense that he believes if you adhere to this rational thought, you will realize that the only outcome is the singularity.
And not only that, but that that moment could be really harmful.
for humanity.
The belief is that this is more important than anything else we can deal with, that future.
And this starts out as a bunch of ideas on the internet, but eventually this becomes a real community centered in Silicon Valley.
There is a research organization that he creates called the Singularity Institute, and he even gets his hooks in the tech industry.
There is a key meeting between him and Peter Thiel, one of the most important investors in the history of Silicon Valley.
ideas.
They start a conference called the Singularity Summit.
with money from
this nascent community.
And at this point, they're called the rationalists.
Well, they're still in the realm of ideas.
But in 2010, that dynamic really shifts.
Eliezer Yudkowsky introduces Peter Thiel to two researchers from London, Demis Hassabis and Shane Lick.
And Thiel decides to invest in their new startup, which is called DeepMind.
Four years later, Google purchases DeepMind for $650 million.
That's right.
And this is not limited to DeepMind.
As the years passed, these ideas helped create other companies that we're talking about today.
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