Science Fiction

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Roko's Basilisk is the internet's most terrifying thought experiment: a future AI superintelligence that punishes anyone who didn't help create it. Born on LessWrong, the rationalist forum of Eliezer Yudkowsky (If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), and banned for five years, it spread all the way to Elon Musk and Grimes. So why do the most rational people invent the craziest myths? A science fiction video essay on AI, rationalism and the gods we build.

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From the dying breath of Orson Welles to the terrifying silence of the Fermi Paradox, this video essay explores how a 1986 toy commercial accidentally birthed the ultimate symbol of late-stage capitalism: Unicron. We dive deep into the Hasbro marketing psy-op behind The Transformers: The Movie, the bleak reality of the Great Filter, and why the "Machine God" isn't lurking in the cosmos—it's already here running our economy.

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00:00 The Horizontal Scream of the Feed
13:58 Dreams of the Biological Bootloader
22:02 The Full Stack Architecture of the Machine
32:56 The Autonomous Builder
43:12 Capitalism OS
45:42 Prophets of the Machine
50:56 Saints, Sinners, Priests and Madmen
53:55 The Logos of Capital
1:15:32 Capitlaism as Intelligence
1:27:30 The Politics of the Overwrite
1:38:30 The Lossy Compression of the Soul
1:42:16 The future that Capitalism wants
1:46:56 The Emancipation Problem

Featuring @TheoVon, Sam Altman, Yanis Varoufakis, Terence McKenna, @TheDangerousMaybe, @ThreeBillionNances, Elon Musk, Nick Land

We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We're looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in strange times.

I can think of no better guide to the year 2022 than Philip K Dick.

The author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the inspiration for Blade Runner, is best known as a science fiction writer. But after his infamous spiritual awakening and the events of 2-3-74, Philip K Dick became something more....a visionary prophet who saw our strange times coming.