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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Is Tech Causing Human Speciation? Drs. M.S. DeLay & A. Bendebury, DSPod #238
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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...