Is Tech Causing Human Speciation? Drs. M.S. DeLay & A. Bendebury, DSPod #238

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This is our second week on the road and we're broadcasting from
uber-sunny Joshua Tree, California. Today we start out with the
observation that a dominant faction of the techno-futurist
community seems to believe that if our civilization maximizes
intelligence, everything will be just fine in the end. We
intuitively balk at this promise - and in general, we are
skeptical at the lack of vision about what that future might look
like. To understand this belief we have to understand what is
meant by "intelligence." Then we have to consider the
alternatives. We look at the evolution of this dream/nightmare
from the earliest days of computer science through the lenses of
sci-fi authors like Bradbury & PKDick up through a recent JRE
interview with Ray Kurzweil. Tell us your thoughts in the
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value computation above all (00:08:14) Quality matters for vision
(00:10:20) Intelligence: wisdom, insight, computation (00:14:45)
Futurists dream to become god? (00:17:44) Insight & wisdom at
the cellular level (00:23:13) False wisdom & hallucinatory
insight (00:31:53) Comfort, computational value structure, and
slavery (00:38:54) Bradbury corollaries (00:45:24) Soviet model:
computational decision making (00:53:23) Exponential computation
goes to bureaucratic singularity (00:58:09) We could be wrong.
Let's be honest. (01:03:02) Tech should work for us, not the
other way (01:09:19) Allure of authority (01:16:52) When
computational futurists go blind (01:23:37) Caution for
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