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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Like it's not a well-defined.
Oh.
Um yeah.
And this is the thing they obsess over, the thing that's ill defined.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They they think that that is pretty much inevitable unless, you know, we have like a a nuclear apocalypse first or something.
Yeah.
I think that's So this is so this isn't through proximity to actual scientists.
Nope.
Or so n nothing about witnessing the actual technology, following other than uh arm's reach.
Yeah, no, I mean it is exactly as Cal just said, and another way of phrasing that is it's it's essentially uh a kind of extremely dry fan fiction that they're engaging in.
They are writing uh, you know, anxiety fueled scenarios based on these ideas that they got from science fiction, thinking that that's what the future is going to be.
Do they believe it?
Oh yeah.
So they're sincere, they're just odd.
Yes.
Yeah.
And at the time you can like dismiss them as sincere oddballs.
What happens is uh Yadkowski just keeps writing and writing and gets invited to contribute to some group blogs and then spins off his own sort of blog uh called uh Less Wrong, which becomes a community.
So that was.
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