Category: The Age of Transitions

There is an ongoing war within the war business. The old guard aerospace companies are now competing with Big Tech players from Silicon Valley. New departments within the US Military have been put into commission that may end up giving an advantage to Big Tech. 

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Aaron was the guest on Richard Syrett’s Strange Planet. This was a chance to talk about transhumanism, the recent rise of AI, and what we might need to watch out for going forward. The collective conversation surrounding these issues has just begun.

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Blake Lemoine burst onto the public scene a year and a half ago when he went public about his work on Google’s LaMDA system. In this interview, Blake talks about the current state of AI development, and our collective involvement in this massively important technological event. 

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It’s a vast, seemingly endless, digital wasteland out there. Somebody must be buying the quadrocopter harmonica drone kit, but does it really matter who?  

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The world is an absolute horror show that can only be repaired by our wise and benevolent hand. The hand of God would do the same thing, and on that note, let’s make a whole new god. We can make it in our image, and it will be looking pretty good. Kind of makes you wonder how the hell anything got done around this dump before we showed up? 

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