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Culture Defines Our Sense of Fear and Opportunity (podcast)
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Episode Culture Defines Our Sense of Fear and Opportunity (podcast)
“If we imagine a human child born onto a desert island, somehow magically kept alive until adulthood, it is possible that this adult’s cognitive skills wouldn’t differ very much--perhaps a little but not very much-- from those of other great apes.” — Michael Tomasello, evolutionary anthropologist
Victims of Nature
Masters of Nature
Human Interactions
Self Perception
Mental Health Is Not Something One Person Has
Don’t Imagine a Pink Elephant
Stereotypes Reflect Reality
Diagnosis
Distinction Begins with Duality
Programming is Not the Same as Understanding
Failing is Educational
“Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like children playing with a bomb. Such is the mismatch between the power of our plaything and the immaturity of our conduct. Super-intelligence is a challenge for which we are not ready now, and will not be ready for a long time. We have little idea when the detonation will occur, though if we hold the device to our ear we can hear a faint ticking.”— Nick Bostrom, technology philosopher
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