Cal Newport
speaker
23,606 appearances
41 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4d ago
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These futurist movements have been convinced since well before LLMs were a big deal.
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They've been convinced for decades.
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That super intelligent AI
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It's gonna come and it's the end through recursive self improvement and it's gonna be the end of history.
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And if we can shepherd it properly.
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It will redeem history, and if we can't, it will destroy the earth.
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It's very eschatological.
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I think that's how Dari Amade sees himself.
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I have to shepherd
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the benevolent digital god.
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Otherwise we'll end up with Elias Yukowski's satanic digital god that will kill us all.
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But they're convinced that of course this is going to happen.
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And that's why you see all this the all this l this precision about ex uh extinction, this comes right out of rationalism.
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The exact ways they describe it's gonna happen.
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They're kind of like high-level, it's a recursive self-improvement.
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The way they talk about models being aligned, but not specific products or system architectures causing trouble.
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This all comes out of the futurism methodology.
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So um
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Maybe this is an economic play.
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I think they're actually true believers.
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