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This is exactly why people don't trust the media.
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Douthat: "But the world of A.I. is clearly filled with people who at the very least seem to have a more utopian, transformative, whatever word you want to call it, view of the technology than you're expressing here.
And you were mentioned earlier, the idea that the modern world used to promise radical life extension and doesn't anymore. It seems very clear to me that a number of people deeply involved in artificial intelligence see it as a kind of mechanism for transhumanism, for transcendence of our mortal flesh, and either some kind of creation of a successor species or some kind of merger of mind and machine.
And do you think that's just all kind of irrelevant fantasy, or do you think it's just hype?
Do you think people are trying to raise money by pretending that we're going to build a machine?
God right. Is it hype? Is it delusion? Is it something you worry about? I think you would.
You would prefer the human race to endure, right?"
Thiel: "uhhh, yea well, I, I dunno, I would, I would...um, uhhh"
(https://youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?si=Qa_KU2DfZ3vJH_8P @ 37:10)
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Douthat: "You would prefer the human race to endure, right?"
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