Science Fiction

Join the patreon, for the sake of your simulated self https://www.patreon.com/c/DamienWalter Roko's Basilisk is the internet's most terrifying thought experiment: a future AI superintelligence that punishes anyone who didn't help create it. Born on LessWrong, the rationalist forum of Eliezer Yudkowsky (If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), and banned for five years, it spread all the way to Elon Musk and Grimes. So why do the most rational people invent the craziest myths? A science fiction video essay on AI, rationalism and the gods we build.

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From the dying breath of Orson Welles to the terrifying silence of the Fermi Paradox, this video essay explores how a 1986 toy commercial accidentally birthed the ultimate symbol of late-stage capitalism: Unicron. We dive deep into the Hasbro marketing psy-op behind The Transformers: The Movie, the bleak reality of the Great Filter, and why the "Machine God" isn't lurking in the cosmos—it's already here running our economy. New to the channel? Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6czzarv3tM&list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl #Transformers1986 #FermiParadox #Unicron #VideoEssay #SciFi #LateStageCapitalism #OrsonWelles #GreatFilter

Get your Ctrl + Alt + Communism tee here https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com/products/ctrl-alt-communism 00:00 The Horizontal Scream of the Feed 13:58 Dreams of the Biological Bootloader 22:02 The Full Stack Architecture of the Machine 32:56 The Autonomous Builder 43:12 Capitalism OS 45:42 Prophets of the Machine 50:56 Saints, Sinners, Priests and Madmen 53:55 The Logos of Capital 1:15:32 Capitlaism as Intelligence 1:27:30 The Politics of the Overwrite 1:38:30 The Lossy Compression of the Soul 1:42:16 The future that Capitalism wants 1:46:56 The Emancipation Problem Featuring @TheoVon, Sam Altman, Yanis Varoufakis, Terence McKenna, @TheDangerousMaybe, @ThreeBillionNances, Elon Musk, Nick Land

We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We're looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in strange times. I can think of no better guide to the year 2022 than Philip K Dick. The author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the inspiration for Blade Runner, is best known as a science fiction writer. But after his infamous spiritual awakening and the events of 2-3-74, Philip K Dick became something more....a visionary prophet who saw our strange times coming.

Star Trek and Star Wars are both dying. Star Trek turns 60 in 2026 with nothing in production. Star Wars just posted its lowest box office opening ever. So. Who killed Star Trek Wars? HINT: it's not JJ Abrams, "woke" or Rey! Featuring: Star Trek at 60, Star Wars, Andor, Disney, Paramount Skydance, Rey, the Prime Directive, Romulus and Remus, and the Pledge of Allegiance. Prompted by @FeralHistorian's video on Star Trek at 60 - https://youtu.be/TQEIHGM-EyQ?is=oSTnY8_V681sd0xH PKD made me make this tshirt - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com New to the channel? Start here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl&si=ShXxZXGkPOOHFjd_

In 1973's Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we're being sold something similar. There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn't want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what's left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month. Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from "will the machine wake up" to "who enclosed the commons this time?" On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx's Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. PKD made me make this tshirt - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com New to the channel? Start here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl&si=ShXxZXGkPOOHFjd_

This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, IContinue reading "Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI"

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