the same time, in 2015, Musk is doing some very famous speeches at the time at MIT. He said that AI was the biggest existential threat and compared developing AI to summoning the demon. And what you're saying here is you're saying that Samman was just mirroring the language that Elon was using to get Elon involved in open
for-profit. Ultimately, OpenAI was successful in that conversion. But during the period where it was sort of existential for open AI to complete this conversion, there were a lot of civil society groups and watchdog groups like MIDAS who were trying to prevent the process from happening in
door and he was served papers. existential harm for humanity best case mass human flourishing. So this is like
But either way, the changes to the platform and the potential fines mean that, you know, even if it's not an existential issue, it's likely to change the company and if it If it loses. This is a case that involves US states, but it's worth saying that countries have also tried to legislate against these social media companies. Let's take
I'd gain something close to 20 pounds, felt like an emotional wreck, probably on account of altering my body chemistry while I was grappling existentially with the shock of an intersex diagnosis, and was self medicating with many other substances to cope, or rather not cope, with these substantial shifts in my body schema and, by extension, my most basic modes of being in the world.
Okay. So basically our brains, the beautiful hot mess that's inside our head that makes it possible for us to live, breathe and survive and have existential crisises um essentially are broken up into three major parts. And the squiggly bit that we all see when we uh imagine a brain is essentially the conscious component of our brain, which the bit that we have control over, the
were supposed to do, which was to go to the school that was never going to educate them, and Blame the parents Existential philosophers say that anytime you have a conversation of equality, the assumption is that things are never equal, right?
Sam Calagione: I should lay down. But, you know Sam Calagione: I should sit in the chair. But, for me, what I recognized, a kind of existential moment was that I'd done a pretty good job of hiring people whose skills compliment my own and that's what was really hard as a small business, startups all about we don't have cash, we don't have money, we gotta survive, survival mode. And then as you grow the challenges become more about people and finding the right people to fit culturally and finding the right
betaglucanise. Also from the investigative recent progress in our understanding of beer foam to the purely existential sourcing the soul of beer. um here today to discuss his recent book, Grape Versus Grain, Dr. Charles Banforth.
it you might be washing itself or might be lying down might be asleep until you open so it's a bit like existentialism I generally know what a cat's doing in the Box anyway so that's what next the next book are there a cing
So they got a list off of over 200 domain names, non-existent . So surveillance has a potential use or a potential
uh comes from practice and for the professionals which is what most of us do that relationship is almost non-existent now these numbers are really striking but there's also a really fascinating pattern here if you compare you know what's going on with games like chess to what's happening with professions there's one clear difference between these it's that as
the bomb that senior you many bomb maker put together for him was hidden in his non-existent what I think the part of
- That was also another great, great observation. Yeah. - That existential moment, do you remember... Like, what were those meetings like? What were those discussions like, deciding as a company, risking everything? - Well I had to make it clear to the board what we're trying to do, and the management team knew our gross margins were gonna get crushed.
particular was spending all of his time sounding the alarm on what he saw as a huge existential threat that AI could pose. And so in that blog post, if you look at the the language that Alman uses side by side with the language that Musk was using at the time, it mirrors all the things that Musk was saying
goal, Democrats failed it. Like he won again. It was saying like it doesn't seem to me that the question is about the existential threat of MAGA. It it feels to me that really where the left and others are trying to do is say in the rubble that is this Donald Trump reality, how is the kind of Democratic party moving forward? It actually seemed like you were kind of leaning in that
institutions and authority was basically an existential crisis for our society and you know I realize that's like the least punk rock thing a person can possibly say.
She never trusted the light because she knew the story of . The existentialists after Kierkegaard believed that we avoid anxiety because we're trying to avoid our humanity.
And existential philosophers realize this.
So existential stress is much higher on the founders side.
supernatural existential pig that flies around and guides him. Um yeah, why is his name Piggy? Well, actually his name
through existential threatening times.
great existential questions, like "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and "Why do we exist?" Hawking writes, "Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy
resonance with the existent traditions and landscape. Do you think that they are versatile enough to do that?
Ces principes-là existent depuis 40 ans.
was non-existent . And so I got in.
this autonomously existent thing.
absolutely not existent . So a few weeks later on if you could see, they were already doing the alphabet.
decomposition non-existent heart rate worms and uncontrollable black oily
altruism into a non-existent commodity and indeed it seems true that we are
when you think about existential threats like climate change or the rise of artificial intelligence -- what role do you see futurists thinking playing in global progress?
Not an existential problem, but I think that's a problem we have a good chance of facing in the next three years, right?
This is an existential battle for future survival.
this is existential. I do think like fighting Trump was an existential threat and everyone should have made sacrifices
is an existential threat. And failing to do so is a is something that's reverberating through the Democratic
It's actually an existential fight that we win this battle.
You weren't expecting existential-level discussion, right?
Mariana will be discussing her new book, "Night Vision-- Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods." Mariana joins us as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she teaches existentialism, Latin American philosophy, religious studies, and the history of philosophy. Mariana's newly-published book, "Night Vision," shows us how when we learn to embrace the dark, we begin to see these moods and ourselves
and if we choose happy. But I'm an existentialist. And for me, what that means is that a human being is someone who holds your hair while you vomit and holds
She never trusted the light because she knew the story of . But the existential lesson is that death is part of life.
Lead with his existential crisis and the emotion, and then have the comedy be behind that, and that will work.
It's an existential crisis.
The birth of existential philosophy in the 19th century is, I think, happened because of this sense of social, economic, and political change being very fundamental
in America an existential threat to the
was a fairly existential confrontation with how our capabilities literally could end life as we know it.
And this is something existential risk experts really-- you probably have heard of something like the Fermi paradox.
So our sort of existential challenge is that there is $1.2 trillion worth of food that goes to waste every year, half of it
as an existential matter.
I sound like an existential crisis guy, right?
Not just existentially, literally perish.