Fantasy Factory: AGI is Scientifically Impossible w/ Adam Becker
Next time someone tells you that we can build data centres in space, show them this podcast episode — because it is literally impossible.
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Or better yet, recommend that they buy More Everything Forever, Adam Becker’s latest book exploring all the fantasies and promises of coming out of Silicon Valley. This episode is the first in our Fantasy Factory series, where we explore how and why tech evangelists manufacture consent about AI’s boom, doom, and inevitability.
The futures that AI men want for us — e.g. a disembodied immortal…
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