TAM: The Artificial Mind
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
AI-generated images have taken the internet by storm over the last week. Are AI profile pics the cute veneer over a coming existential threat to human self-worth? Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk released a Twitter thread with the first fruits of what Taibbi dubbed "The Twitter Files." The thread confirmed suspicions that Twitter and the government were tightly aligned with one another in censoring inconvenient information. Plus: Warnock defeated Walker in Georgia's runoff race for a hotly contested Senate seat, giving ultimate control of the Senate to Democrats. Our editors analyze the boring dystopia we find ourselves in.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.0 | I mean, I think people really need to be extremely |
| 0:05.9 | demoralized and incapacitated in order to willingly |
| 0:10.8 | and proactively just surrender their lives |
| 0:14.8 | and their livelihoods and their reason for existing |
| 0:17.1 | over to some invisible machines that flicker symbols |
| 0:20.7 | on a screen. |
| 0:22.0 | The use case for really just kind of amputating the future |
| 0:27.0 | and giving it to the machines is as usual, |
| 0:30.6 | like bad governments, just forcing people to do these things |
| 0:34.1 | and using their proxies in the private sector |
| 0:36.1 | to force them to do it on pain of various penalties |
| 0:39.9 | or being locked out of various privileges |
| 0:41.8 | or not receiving patronage or being officially discriminated |
| 0:46.1 | against or stigmatized. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table, |
| 1:13.9 | your weekly publishers and editors podcast here |
| 1:17.0 | at the American Mind. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm your host, Spencer Clayton, |
| 1:19.8 | features editor of the American Mind and associate editor |
| 1:22.8 | of the Claremont Review of Books. |
| 1:24.2 | And I've got a full house today. |
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