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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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And uh and Yadkowski, along with some other, you know, transhumanist futurist types like Ray Kurzweil, uh starts this, you know, set of uh conferences, the Singularity Summit, and um, you know, just gets people together every year to talk about this stuff and the community of rationalists.
Some less wrong just, you know, start you know, gets bigger and bigger and they start meeting up.
In the Bay Area, they start living together in group houses and yet rationalist mean?
Rationalist basically means you spend a lot of your spare time reading Yadkowski's writing.
Uh Yadkowski thinks at this point that if you don't believe that the singularity is coming and that AI is an existential threat to humanity unless you figure out how to do it right, he thinks if you don't believe those things, you're not thinking rationally.
And so he decides to post a lot about how to think rationally.
That's something that's Yes, that's it.
That's it?
That's the entire rationality part?
Yeah, that's why he writes.
It's not about living rationally.
It's just about the ration their so-called rational belief that the computer might w wake up.
Are you fucking ki
Right, but they don't seem to be doing anything other than talking.
Yeah, no, at this point they're not.
They're they're doing
But like to to be very, very clear, Yodkowski is anointing himself as an expert on, you know, the the art of rationality and cognitive biases and how to think.
And, you know, this is this is an entirely self-trained, self-taught guy who whose experience of the world is pretty limited.
And he is posting hundreds of thousands of words about this.
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