Harry Potter & The Rationality of Dumbledore's Hole Part 1: Do You Really Wanna Live Forever?
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It's a big one, prayer warriors and pay pigs. Kenny and Virgil are headed down Dumbledore's Hole into the Realm of Singularity and the School of Less Wrong, a theory that may or may not have been invented by a published fanfic writer who is so terrified of death that he takes 100 pills a day. Joined by the level-headed economics understander, Greg of Gorilla Radio Show, the trio take a gander at a world filled with rouge AI, rationalism, atheist movements, private islands, "think tanks", libertarians, rational polyamory, Harry Potter, Jeffrey Epstein connections, and Grimes. All to find out one question: why are the richest, self-labeled autodidacts so afraid of their own machines?
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Works Cited and Further Reading:
Futuarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs
The DAO: the future of decentralized governance
Overcoming Bias: Two Types of Envy
Policy Analysis Market
Silicon Valley Questions the Meaning of Life
Richard Smith: Will I Make it to 2045 and Become Immortal?
At the Growing Billionaires' Dinner, Tech Stars Move to Grown-Ups' Table
RationalismWiki
History of Less Wrong
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