Ed Zitron
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12,971 appearances
65 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Ed Zitron’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
And they're like, Yeah, we're gonna fight the second law of thermodynamics, to which my response as a physicist is, you know, yeah, good luck with that.
But um
Basically, uh this guy, this this kid shows up, uh uh named Eliezer Yadkowski, who is a teenager at that point.
Dropped
that is wild.
Yep, dropped out after eighth grade.
That's correct.
That's crazy, man.
Yep.
Um
And uh and yeah, Judkowski then goes on to uh write an enormous amount of you know his own deep thoughts on what he thinks the future of AI is going to be.
Uh and relatively quickly comes to the conclusion that uh AI is going to, you know, he he takes
Takes an article of faith among these people, which is that AI is going to become self-improving and lead to a super intelligent AI at some point in the relatively near future and lead to a singularity where everything changes and, you know, all of the stuff that the transhumanists believe is inevitable is going to happen.
Uh he comes to the
Jadkowski then comes to the conclusion that uh such an AI might not be friendly to humanity and probably wouldn't be unless it's done properly.
And the singularity is when the computer is smarter than us, just so that I understand.
It's when I it's really ill-defined.
It's when the computer is smarter than us, or maybe it's when the computer can upload us into com more computers so we can all be computer and everything is computer.
Uh the singularity is when uh is when a lot of tech, but all the time and everything.
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