Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

But this is a specific community that burst online and circulates around these specific blogs. matched

The most prominent of those blogs is this one called Less Wrong, and it's by a guy called Eliezer Yudkowski. matched

And I they've basically come upon the idea that the most altruistic thing that you can do is prevent an AI apocalypse. matched

And it's that idea of, you know, you pr protect more of the future millions if you're looking ahead to the dangers that that presents. matched

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I don't know. matched

It's all a bit weird. matched

It's hard for me to get my head around to be honest, but there's some people who are really, really invested in this. matched

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They're all about like the reason why they use like the term rational, it's all about trying to like apply like math and logic and computing science to solve all of life's problems, essentially. matched

And I call they these kind of people solve for X types. matched

Like everything is solvable. matched

There's no such thing as the the messiness of life. matched

It's all just, you know, a puzzle to be solved and matched

It's a bit of a weird way to look at the world, to be totally honest. matched

Cognitive bias can be solved. matched

The fact that your body declines can be solved. matched

And all of it just just needs an application of science and logic. matched

Introspection. matched

And like There's a lot of talk now of being like anti introspection. matched

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