Joe Allen

They also want to give you this transhumanist craziness where you're supposed to merge with the machines and we're supposed to build, these atheists are building their digital god that we're all supposed to worship.

Their comms teams have told them not to talk about that so loudly.

But if you go back, I was just going back and reading a blog post before the show here by Sam Altman.

that he wrote before his comms team told him to tone it down.

And he was writing about how he thinks there are only two options for humanity after he builds superintelligence.

One is we fade into an evolutionary tree branch.

That's his quote.

Or what he thinks is the better option, we merge with the machines.

This is my two-year-old son.

Who is he to tell my son that he needs to go merge with machines?

What's that got to do with American values and American democracy?

In short, there are many threats to America.

You've talked a lot, for example, about geopolitical threats, but there is a huge threat coming from San Francisco as well.

We can't ignore that.

And in fact, they try to make us only focus on external threats so we shouldn't pay attention to them.

You can just Google it, search for Altman, the merge, and it comes right up.

He thinks basically this is the hopeful future he sees, that we merge with machines.

Where's the opt-out button?

No thanks.

Many people were shocked that this statement today got such incredibly broad support from all across the political spectrum.