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Podcast: The Technosocial Institute
Episode: Autocults, Algorithms and Alchemy with Alexander Bard and Patrick Ryan
Description: Alexander Bard is a philosopher and former pop star and music producer. Patrick Ryan is an AI warfare specialist. In this conversation, we explore: a diagnosis of the state and near future of technosociety, talking about AIs, pathos and the rise of a new elite; the faulty logic of the brain/body split and the idea of uploading consciousness to machines; digital religion and religion-as-technology; mimesis and crazy wisdom; the end of the human race; tribes and the shamanic caste; the infantilization of post-1945 society; the flaws with current "revolutionary" political movements and Black Lives Matter; alchemy and its...