In this special live episode, recorded before an audience at Long Now Boston, Nir and J dig into existential risk. J takes seriously the prospect of catastrophic AI outcomes even absent consciousness or agency in any rich sense, while Nir worries less about civilization-ending scenarios than about a quieter, lowercase existential threat: the erosion of what makes us distinctively human. 

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The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot

Enshitification by Cory Doctorow

The Apology by Plato

Cyborgs and Space by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline

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Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits