Kevin Russell

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741 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan · Kevin Russell (Does AI Think Before Speaking?) · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And like you're interfacing with the sum total of human knowledge at that point.

Like if you were to try to articulate that power to anybody 50 years ago, that's a godlike ability.

And so that was like the segue to it, but I think it goes deeper.

Um, Kevin Kelly has a great book called uh What Technology Wants.

Did you ever read this?

So he plots uh technology as the um the extended phenotype, that there isn't a independent relation between humans and their technology.

It is our exoskeleton.

Um it is our extended phenotype.

And he it it has its own needs and wants, but same thing you can say about any uh symbiotic relation to two things that

So I wouldn't think of it as a pet.

Let's go deeper.

I sent you that book.

And this is like this goes from like a decade of thinking about this, but

If you think about and it works with your anthropology, but the the first human that picked up a rock and saw the rock as something that could be more, like that was the first hard drive to to sh to take and

break off f flakes of that rock was a record of the intent of the world to be something more than what it was.

I forgot about that.

Yes.

And so that same rock that that the Liquadian hand axe from three million years ago is the same intention to mold the world into more than it could be.

And now we have we've taken that same rock and we've m broken it into silicon and then we've created silicon in the right form that is now thinking and speaking back.

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