Iain Thomson
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272 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 May
Iain Thomson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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mean, my mom still plays, you know, 18 holes every week, even in her 80s.
But it is a national religion.
That's
Yeah.
Although when she came over to San Francisco, she couldn't handle the pavements.
Golf courses, she can handle.
Pavements, not so much.
But you see the best hole is the 19th.
You know, that's where
C. Clarke had a marvelous essay about how you should be polite to robots and polite to software because that gets reflected back.
But I understand your frustration completely.
Yeah, right.
No, but politeness is, you know, is the core to civilized human society.
So, you know.
It
in-house philosopher is probably one of the most Silicon Valley things ever.
20 years ago, the idea that that kind of job would be available, it's valuable, certainly, but it's just an in-house philosopher.
Well, I mean, the Scottish science fiction author Ian M. Banks came up with the idea that basically if an AI did become self-conscious, the first thing we do is hide that fact from anyone else.
So we honestly don't know.
It's
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