Dan Patterson

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237 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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This Week in Tech (Audio) · TWiT 1102: Exclave Subpoena - OpenClaw, Meta's Muse, & Persistent Agentic Automation · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

I think years ago when I was working for Jason, I interviewed Nick Bostrom, who is the um, if not the originator of many of these ideas, certainly one of the accelerants.

Um he's popularized in his book Superintelligence a lot of these ideas that the effective altruists use.

And he was tied years ago to

a number of eugenics movements and he made pretty um uh controversial statements, uh offensive statements in eugenics forums.

You know, I

I made the reference to without evidence too these hack stories.

I I'm sure you've mentioned this on shows prior, but the

air quotes concerning behavior.

All of these all of these allegations have simply been that.

We have not actually seen evidence.

I've I've heard these stories repeated ad nauseum by pretty credible individuals in the media, but we have simply not seen evidence.

We we don't have data to back this up.

We just have these claims.

Yeah.

So it's an effective pe pessimist.

Yeah.

way more in interesting.

I think a lot of that ignorance is our ignorance.

It's not just yours.

It's our ignorance is being exploited.

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