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So the way that I understand this is that the, the Dumers and the Accelerationists, they historically share a common origin? Yeah. Is that right? It's a very interesting piece of history. And so maybe let's just start right there. I don't think many people know that story. I would be surprised. Very, very few people have told this story in any good sense. I would love for more people to tell the story, because it's a fucking crazy story, man.

Oh, man.

So the story, as we have it today, with, like, you know, this, like, chat GPT and AGI and ASI and AI risk,

all of this stuff descends from this one weird offshoot in 1980s group of futurists called the extropians.

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Today, the case for stopping the AI race before it's too late.

And surprisingly, it's a story that starts with extreme techno-optimism

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