Neil McRobert
speaker
8,757 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Neil McRobert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know?
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And
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She's like in her mid to late eighties now and she's written about dystopia all her life and
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I asked her this question, I said this, has it ever been this bad before?
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And she was like, Yeah, yeah, it's always been this bad.
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And I w in a perverse way that reassures me.
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Absolutely.
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Because it gives us a framework for how bad things feel.
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Um so I think there's some of that going on, the the comparison between AI and the robot people.
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The other thing
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Is that I think shows like yours are actually doing a service, not not to overstate it, I think they are doing a service because
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That insurmountable barrier of knowledge of thinking this thing is so much bigger than me, I think it leads in a way to a recursive catch twenty two of apocalyptic thought where as more people think I can't make a difference and I'm just gonna prepare for the end and make my bug out back.
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More and more people opt out of the social fabric and community and and that leads to further fraying I think that's it.
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Yeah.
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The more that we can make people feel optimistic about the future.
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That in itself is perhaps in some small way helping avert disaster.
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I couldn't
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that makes sense?
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It does make sense.
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