Tim Urban

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2,102 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2023 last heard Feb 2023

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And so the question is like, if you get enough good, does that protect you against the bad, right?

The dream, and I do think this is possible too, is the good gets so good.

You know, have you ever read the culture series, the Ian Banks books?

Yes, I need to change this.

So that's how I got onto it.

And I read six of the 10 books and they're great.

But the thing I love about them is like, it just paints one of these

Futuristic societies where the good has gotten so good that the bad is no longer even an issue.

Basically, and the way that this works is the AIs are benevolent and they control everything.

And so there's one random anecdote where they're like, what happens if you murder someone?

Because there's still people with rage and jealousy or whatever.

So someone murders someone.

First of all, that person's backed up.

So it's like they have to get a new body.

And it's annoying, but it's not death.

And secondly, that person, what are they going to do?

Put them in jail?

No, no, no.

They're just going to send a slap drone around, which is this little tiny random drone that just will float around next to them forever.

And by the way, kind of be their servant.

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