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

Like, you know, Peter Thiel has put investment in this community. matched

As I mentioned, Sam Bankman Fried made millions and and and threw it over to them before he got arrested. matched

Um so like they have a lot of financial weight behind them and that always helps when it comes to any kind of political lobbying and trying to like present yourself as some big deal. matched

But essentially like I think the reason why I brought up the whole eugenics thing earlier is because you're just back to this thing of bad ideas wrapped up in so called rational thinking. 'Cause they think like, you know, this is all just being logical and it's all about this is the rational choice. matched

But matched

If you look at this mix of the EA attitude and the rationalist lens, you have matched

these people at the frontier of the development of AI looking through that and they're chiefly concerned matched

with a future imagined existential threat. matched

And they're not paying attention to the real and present dangers that they are actually contributing to. matched

That's that's really, really frustrating. matched

Like to be making all these pronouncements about like matched

In ten years or so this is gonna happen and this is what we're moving towards. matched

But right now people are being harmed by these technologies. matched

Right now we have matched

Categorical scientific evidence that we have absolutely overshot on our climate commitments and we are going to be over one point five degrees warming in the very near future. matched

That's based on science. matched

That's a big apocalyptic announcement and that's a massive existential threat. matched

That didn't get nearly as much much coverage as this guy's tweet. matched

So this is the thing, I actually think you have a pretty potent mix of people who genuinely believe in this stuff and are scared of what they believe in and feel like they're the hero in this narrative by bringing that forward and warning people about it. matched

And and even making logical leaps to do that while they're still working in this area and and still positioning themselves as some kind of whistle blowing hero. matched

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