The events going on right now are the mirror of the change you've been seeing in popular science fiction over the last decades. "Why is everything so grim in hopeless in the scfi now when it used to be so full of hope?"
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His vision is that fly-over America can't produce baby wipes or dental care while blue America has a 2nd generation Eritrean woman producing major breakthroughs at the intersection of the fields of human cognition and machine intelligence as a Princeton undergrad
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He posits an alternative to living in this world though; a computer simulated dream world that can only be entered by being brain scanned after death. Of course everyone chooses this.
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Don't worry though, unthinking, soul-less AIs keep the real world going by generating power and keeping up with the need for increasing amounts of computational hardware sphere for the real essence of humanity - a gnostic world where finally people aren't bound by the physical.
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Neal Stephenson has about 30 IQ points on the Westworld tv writers but they're both in strong agreement that there's nothing possibly biological about this and that the death of all humanity is preferable to acknowledging that that trait is heritable.
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