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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The Future of Robot “Servants”

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The human world is increasingly 'assisted' by a pantheon of automations. Yet this emergent reality brings to bear fundamental philosophical quandries about the nature of not only the mind but the soul of things called 'artificial.' In tonight's episode, sponsored by Illumination Global, Unlimited, Ben, Matt and Noel see both sides of a dangerous future.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.7

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. Hello welcome back to the show my name is Matt

0:27.6

my name is no they call me Ben we're joined as always with our super producer

0:32.3

Paul Mission Control Decant.

0:34.4

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:37.4

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:41.4

Folks, friends, neighbors, country bots, lend us your ears.

0:45.6

Have you ever felt like the game of life is just too much?

0:50.0

Also, do you remember that board game, life?

0:52.1

Just too much.

0:54.0

I could never.

0:55.0

I could never get to the...

0:56.0

Is that the one where you have the little cars,

0:58.0

you keep stacking weird stuff on top of?

1:00.0

You have a station wagon, you get married, you fill up the little slots and each person's a peg and you fill them up in the station wagon.

1:08.0

A little oversimplification of life if you ask me. I don't know. I never yeah mmm also it seemed to just kind of like

1:16.1

overemphasize commercialism and sort of this like faux American dream kind of thing yeah, also argue everybody has to get married, which is not true. But, you know, if you think about it, wherever you are in life, if you're an adult, you have pretty much several jobs. You've got your official career,

1:36.3

your occupation, whatever that may be, and then you've got all this other stuff that

1:41.0

doesn't pay you financially yet remains necessary for

1:45.0

survival. Chores, you have to pay the bills. Hopefully you can visit a

1:51.3

doctor, your parents,

1:53.3

you're a family member, you've got obligations there.

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