Hello pals, it is I, Duncan Trussell and you are listening to the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast.

A few weeks ago I received one of the coolest emails of my life.

Hey Duncan, I'm writing from Singularity University which was founded by Peter Diamandis and Rakers while.

We are based at NASA Research Park in the Bay Area.

If you ever want to come by our lab and get your mind blown by some crazy robots, drones, and stuff you're always welcome to stop by...

and I always like, did he say...

Crazy robot, crazy robot, crazy robot,

give your mind blown by robot.

In case you can't tell I just got logic and a brand new computer,

this is all part of my never-ending quest to bring to you the cleanest, most refined, high-tech, super-advanced sound.

Wrap up in little technological love packets to go rolling down into your heart and flower into blossoms of love so that you can spend your day glowing, emanating halo-like aura as you listen to this podcast that will hopefully draw to you.

Many massages, many deep tongue kisses from your boss and peers, and eventually it is my hope that it will actually cause the very surface of the earth to recombobulate and transform into one giant trampoline that we can all bounce off of into another plane of existence where all we experience as love and where we are no longer limited by the meaty bodies our souls are currently trapped inside of.

I used to use a MacBook Pro which I'm still using but I used an old MacBook Pro.

By old I mean two years ago and it had an antiquated hard drive in it in the sense that it didn't have a solid state drive which is the drive that new MacBooks and theoretically new laptops are using.

But it used one of those worrying drives one of those ancient old fashioned grandma style worrying hard drives where if you're trying to record anything or do anything you always had to wait as the hard drive word and clicked like a rusty old pacemaker in the heart of a dying dock worker.

No more now we have solid state drives and this insane thing that has happened which for me is insane because I come from the days when we actually would use floppy disks these giant square black things that you would shove it to your computer and that was your hard drive and then it went to the hard drives that are now going extinct to solid state drives and this.

Pattern of accelerating returns that exists in evolutionary systems is what one of the founders of singularity university writes about in his book the singularity is near.

I'm just going to read a short passage to you from the book when the first train starts with the quote when the first transhuman intelligence is created and launches itself into recursive self improvement a fundamental discontinuity is likely to occur.

The likes of which I can't even begin to predict Michael and a Simov.

I'm sure I mispronounced his name and I'm positive that I won't mispronounce a great many other things as I read this chapter so I'm sorry.

In the 1950s John Vaughn Newman the legendary information theorist was quoted as saying that the ever accelerating progress of technology gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race.

Beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue.

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