00:00Sean and Les, what inspired you to tackle artificial intelligence on this go-around?
00:06In this case, you know, we had just been reading about the paperclip dilemma.
00:10This idea that, you know, a supercomputer that was smarter than humans,
00:14if you programmed it to do something as simple as make as many paperclips as possible,
00:18it could eventually wind up destroying the whole planet and then, you know,
00:23creating spaceships to go out and colonize the whole solar system and the galaxy to just turn everything into paperclips.
00:28So it's a cautionary tale, you know.
00:30To me, that's just the subtext.
00:32It's more a commentary on the loss of empathy that we're experiencing on a worldwide level right now.
00:40And I don't think that, you know, a synthetic life form has that ability because we are made of star
00:47stuff.
00:47We are the universe looking back at itself and that's, can't replicate that.
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