Feb. 24, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Because, you know, when you look at the Milgram experiments, you look at the Stanford prison experiments and so on, there's, you know, 20% of people, 25% of people, 15% of people, right? | |
| It's about a quarter of people, give or take, 20%, a fifth or to a quarter of people who think independent of authority, right? | |
| So if they had... | |
| Read these articles and said, gee, that's really terrible and so on. | |
| And I got nothing. | |
| Oh, when I'd been deplatformed and so on, I said, oh, this is really unjust, this is really unfair and so on, right? | |
| But they didn't, right? | |
| People completely forgot about me. | |
| And I see this, you know, when occasionally I'll sort of pop up on X and just out of curiosity go read stuff. | |
| Oh man, whatever happened to that guy? | |
| I thought he died. | |
| Is he still around? | |
| Whatever happened to that guy? | |
| Oh my God, he's gone. | |
| And again, that's fine. | |
| I have actually great thanks and appreciation. | |
| For my invisibility. | |
| But when I struggled right to the fiery cliff edge of self-destruction to work to save the world, and I move one website over and people don't care, why would I care if their jobs get replaced by AI? Again, I'm happy to hear the case of the contrary, but why would I put myself back out with exposure and risk and challenge and death threats and bomb threats to people Who, for the most part, cheered on those attacking me. | |
| Come on, be honest. | |
| You would not go back to the village where you kept getting attacked for trying to bring medicine because they were listening to their witch doctors and their liars, right? | |
| You wouldn't go back there. | |
| But those villagers who kept throwing stuff at you and throwing spears at you and setting fire to your tent and turning over your jeep, man, those guys... | |
| Those villagers who kept attacking you because they kept listening to the witch doctors, man, those villagers might get their jobs replaced by AI! Okay, I mean, yeah, it might happen. | |
| It might happen. | |
| Oh, dear, oh, dear. | |
| Well, someone says, Steph, I have learned a lot from how you manage the callers. | |
| Your eloquent assertions inspire me to level up my own communications. | |
| Well done, and thank you. | |
| Yeah, see, I mean, I think with the caller today, I was assertive about what I needed and the standard that I required for the conversation. | |
| I was assertive about that. | |
| Once we started complying with that, we could be friendly again, right? | |
| There's no just dig in and be hostile. | |
| No. | |
| Saying this is what I need to continue the conversation. | |
| And also, he did me wrong. | |
| He accused me of something, you know, not egregious, but fairly bad. | |
| He publicly accused me of being manipulative and false. | |
| And, you know, once you apologize for that, yeah, it's fine. | |
| All right. | |
| All right. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Push-button elevators put that job in the trash. | |
| We'll be past laws banning them. | |
| You could get rid of all unemployment. | |
| In America, or the West, or Canada, Europe, you could get rid of all unemployment tomorrow. | |
| Just ban automated farm equipment. | |
| No unemployment! | |
| It's all sorted out. | |
| Yet, people don't really want to do that. | |
| Self-driving cars can put chauffeurs out of work. | |
| Cars put horses out of work. | |
| Buddywick, buggywick manufacturers out of work. | |
| AI and post-scarcity civilization could work well. | |
| The transition may be very painful, though. | |
| Right, so you understand that AI can only replace NPCs. | |
| I mean, I'm not talking about the code stuff and all of that, but AI cannot think. | |
| It can only assemble language in pre-configured ways according to prior assemblages. | |
| I've got whole presentations on AI. It's a word guesser based upon prior usage, just like an NPC. The NPCs pretend to know things they don't know. | |
| They pretend to have smarts they don't have, and they're ferociously hostile to anyone who reveals their retarded limitations of pretend thinking. | |
| The sophists, those who pretend to know that which they do not know, are the enemies of philosophers and have been ever since Miletus versus Socrates, Socrates versus the sophists, Aristotle, Plato, you name it, versus the sophists. | |
| Artificial intelligence is the natural enemy of philosophy. | |
| We are locked in a mortal battle, the pretense of thought versus actual thought. | |
| It's a zero-sum game. | |
| Winners and losers. | |
| We win, they lose. | |
| They lose, we win. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Are you saying that artificial intelligence might put soffits out of work? | |
| Good! | |
| because those same fucking sophists have been putting philosophers out of life for thousands of years. | |
| Because if you genuinely think, you can't be replaced by AI, even if you're not super smart, if you genuinely think. | |
| Thank you. | |
| But the people who pretend to think, the people who simply assemble language based upon preconceived propaganda, they're AI, and AI will replace them. | |
| You can't get AI to write what I write, but you sure as shit can get AI to write generic media slop of propaganda. | |
| Right? | |
| So, AI is taking food, power, and authority out of the mouths of people who only pretend to think, who are the natural enemies of philosophers because they regularly chase us down and try and get us banned, excluded, killed, deplatformed, debanked, whatever, right? | |
| Even then, I'm not happy about it. |
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