The Machine Lords of Barnard 68, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Even as humans reach out into the void with robotic probes and turn to artificial intelligence to aid in the search for extraterrestrial life, we face the possibility that the life we find out there might be mechanical and governed by artificial intelligence as well. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss alien AI and post-organic life.
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:45.0 | My name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:46.4 | And I'm Jim McCormack, and we're back with part two of our talk about post-biological |
| 0:50.3 | intelligence. |
| 0:51.3 | Now, in the last episode, we talked about, let's see, we talked about some work by |
| 0:56.8 | the set of researchers, Seth Schostach, and we talked about the philosopher Susan Schneider, |
| 1:01.4 | who had both written about the idea of looking for signs of alien intelligence elsewhere |
| 1:07.3 | in the Milky Way, and the proposition that if we were to encounter such an intelligence, |
| 1:13.7 | it would probably be more likely the machine descendants of a previous biological intelligence |
| 1:21.1 | than it would be biological entities themselves. |
| 1:24.5 | Over time, organisms like us will tend to sort of turn themselves into machines, or at |
| 1:30.4 | least create a technoculture that's dominated by machines. |
| 1:34.7 | These are the types of intelligences that we should really be looking for and trying to |
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