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Tara McGowan-Ross's avatar

What an absolutely wild ride.

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Sanjiv Bhattacharya's avatar

It is! Thanks for subscribing Tara. I'll keep my eye on this story for you. Can't wait to see what Ziz and the rest have to say when the interviews finally emerge.

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Tara McGowan-Ross's avatar

you're my new favourite substack!!

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Sanjiv Bhattacharya's avatar

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your support!

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Jared Mazzaschi's avatar

Talk about fun! These folks are really off their rockers and if they didn't kill innocent victims it sure would be fun to watch. Oh well, can't win them all I guess. Thanks for the breakdown regardless.

Your summary paragraphs about the "warping terror of existential threat" were particularly sharp. I don't think I've come across that idea put so succinctly before. Bravo. I think you are onto something. Plus a little Raskolnikov never hurts an argument. Ever.

Thanks for the name check!

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Sanjiv Bhattacharya's avatar

Thanks Jared, appreciate this. The threat of AI is one of those topics, the more I read about it the more understand how it could drive someone off the edge. Don't hesitate to nudge me if there's anything else on your radar that sounds interesting. Your antennae are expertly tuned!

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Hilary Hattenbach's avatar

😵‍💫 Definitely feeling like a slow human as I try to wrap my head around all this stuff. What in the actual hell? Also, way to give vegans a bad name. Now the pro-beef lobby is like, "WARNING: A vegan diet will turn you into a crazed murderer." I laughed out loud several times, including "I’d like to call this stuff nuts and just move on. I’ve got work to do and it’s hard to focus when the aliens are coming up the drive." Thanks for breaking down this madness for us, Sanj.

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Sanjiv Bhattacharya's avatar

Thanks Hilary! The vegan/violence thing is definitely counterintuitive given the vegans I've met. But equally, if you value animal life as equivalent to human, then maybe it makes you a bit more cavalier about human beings in the long run? Not that I'm anyone to talk. I value my dog over almost everyone I know.

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Hilary Hattenbach's avatar

Ahhh. Good point. Just feel like the right will have a field day with this story

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Michael Holden's avatar

I don't know how you look into this stuff wihout losing it yourself. “A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason” G K Chesterton.

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Sanjiv Bhattacharya's avatar

Nice one Michael, that's the perfect quote! As for losing it, I think that ship has sailed...

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