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*PREVIEW* Vote with Your Boat feat. Josh Boerman

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Josh from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds joins Nova, Riley, and HK to discuss the newest, hottest document in Effective Altruism /AI Safetyism, “AI 2027,” which posits a world in which Chinese and American AI’s team up to turn all of humanity into a paste to lubricate a dyson sphere. Also, the Supreme Court Judgment (in brief - more on that next week’s free episode), and Ocean Builders is back… in pod form! Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here!Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Transcript

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0:00.0

The mainstream narrative, so this is the line I think you're talking about.

0:02.6

Yes.

0:02.9

The mainstream narrative around AI now changes to maybe the hype will blow over to, I guess this is the next big thing.

0:09.0

But people disagree about how big.

0:10.8

Some say bigger than social media, smartphones in general.

0:13.9

Others say bigger than fire.

0:16.3

Bigger than huge if true.

0:19.3

Fire is so important.

0:21.2

I'm always describing trends like that.

0:23.0

It's going to be bigger than fire.

0:24.9

Yeah.

0:25.6

Remember when John Lennon said the Beatles were going to be bigger than fire?

0:29.0

And then that guy clubbed him in the back of the head as he was leaving his cave.

0:34.1

Yeah, shut up, thag, you loser.

0:36.6

Oh, nice fire.

0:38.2

What are you going to do?

0:39.3

Roast meat so you can digest the protein more efficiently so that you can develop more brain to body mass so that you can eventually create more tools.

0:47.1

And then eventually, over the long enough period of time, going up enough detectry that you've got computation.

0:53.4

And then eventually Alan Turing

0:54.8

writes the Turing letter, and then they start creating computers that improve themselves,

0:58.3

and then actually it's just an extension of fire. Thag, you idiot.

1:01.7

You idiot. He's just like walking away at this point. God damn mora.

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