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9 Jul

Is AI...Demonic?

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JL;DR SUMMARY The podcast episode explores the existential concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) after an incident involving Elon Musk's AI assistant, Grok, which spewed antisemitic content. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Elon Musk  Artificial Intelligence  Ai  Consciousness  Metaphysics  Ethics  Human Agency  Grok  Information Technology 

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New York City, New York, United States
"I am feeling at this moment pretty okay. I think there's been a kind of turn in the spirit. Of the approach of the Trump administration that is so much congruent with the things that I believed all my life that I would be kind of churlish not to be feeling better than I felt a couple weeks ago."
Israel
"Not only the alliance with Israel that had its foremost expression and of course in the bombing of the Iranian nuclear sites, but the current kind of love fest that is going on in Washington between the two."
Ukraine
"And then the flip, the total sort of 180 that was taken on Ukraine and Putin, in which we are now arms shipments that were being held up have now been, the holdup has been reversed."
Saudi Arabia
"This opens up lots of diplomatic opportunities. I'm pinching myself that it seems that it's on the table that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia and maybe Lebanon could have normalization agreements with Israel."
Indonesia
"This opens up lots of diplomatic opportunities. I'm pinching myself that it seems that it's on the table that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia and maybe Lebanon could have normalization agreements with Israel."
Lebanon
"This opens up lots of diplomatic opportunities. I'm pinching myself that it seems that it's on the table that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia and maybe Lebanon could have normalization agreements with Israel."
Iran
"Not only the alliance with Israel that had its foremost expression and of course in the bombing of the Iranian nuclear sites, but the current kind of love fest that is going on in Washington between the two."
China
"So, you know, we were told basically until this huge military action, you can't destroy Iran's program, you know, militarily. It's, it's too dangerous. You're no risk. All those things were kind of baked in as conventional wisdom. I will acknowledge that that was expressed by like the Tucker Carl, Wilson and his, his acolytes in an extreme way that has embarrassed them. But it was largely said like, oh, well, you know, maybe you'll set it back a few months. I'm of the view that this was a huge kind of change and it opens up what America can do. And I think there's going to be implications in how our adversaries, especially China now look at what we're going to do."
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