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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.

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00:00 Go!
00:06:14 Futurists 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 catastrophism. Looking within.

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