7: Singularities All Around Us!

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The technological singularity may or may not be looming in our future, so we attempt to get to the bottom of singularities past and present, quantum intelligence, civilizational collapse, and other cheerful subjects. Plus: a hands-on report and one (1) email! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	I mean, you know, it's October. I feel like it's time to talk about a terrifying subject, right?
0:04.5	Yeah. Do you think this is terrifying? I think it's probably going to be okay.
0:08.0	I don't know. I feel like everything, everything is terrifying now. So yes, by default.
0:12.4	I mean, that is the defining characteristic of our time as a sense of impending dread.
0:16.6	I mean, I don't know. I'm like half optimistic. I kind of think that maybe this might be good for us.
0:21.2	Maybe we shouldn't be in charge of ourselves.
0:23.1	I've read a lot of speculative fiction where they're like, well, we let the computers
0:26.4	take over and then shit started going really well.
0:28.8	So, you know, it's not all Terminators.
0:31.1	Until everybody forgot how to maintain them and then they ran away with themselves. Look, if the computers can't maintain themselves, then they shouldn't fucking be in charge.
0:37.9	That's number one criteria.
0:39.5	May you live in terrifying times.
0:41.0	That's the saying, right?
0:42.1	It's fucking Confucius.
0:43.2	What a dick.
1:06.3	I'm a fucking Confucius. Hey, Brad.
1:06.7	Hello.
1:08.5	We made a tech pod.
1:10.2	This is the seventh episode.
1:12.6	This is a monument to our technical expertise.
1:14.9	We have a week worth of podcast now.
1:16.6	If you start on Sunday, you can finish on Saturday.
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