The NanceCast

Benjamin Studebaker Talks Intelligence And The Natural Slave

Benjamin Studebaker [https://substack.com/profile/281728583-benjamin-studebaker] joins Mikey, The Dangerous Maybe [https://substack.com/profile/147897623-the-dangerous-maybe], and I for a conversation about Intelligence. What is Intelligence? Why does the question even matter? What does the reduction of Intelligence to tasks that can be mechanically simulated do to the notion of Freedom? Politics? The Soul? Can this question lead to an emancipatory project? We touch on A LOT in this conversation, Orthogonality, The Turing Test, Neo-/Techno-Feudalism, Benjamin's critique of Nick Land's core thesis (Capitalism IS Artificial Intelligence); and a whole lot more!!! Thanks, Benjamin!! Can't wait for our next convo!!! You can now get a paperback of Benjamin's book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, wherever you get your books!!! Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe Make sure to check out Sean's Substack, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! https://www.patreon.com/nancee and as always, stay tuned for more!! Thanks for your time and attention!!! Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nanceee.substack.com [https://nanceee.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

The Best BACKROOMS Conversation Ever Had (by us)!!

Yo! In this episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe [https://substack.com/profile/147897623-the-dangerous-maybe] and I talk about Backrooms, the film that just hit theatres and seems to have been assembling itself out of disparate bits of online fiction and memes posted on The Chans, Reddit, and Instagram over the last two decades or so. What is it about The Backrooms lore that speaks so loudly to people? We get into Liminality, touch on Phenomenology, consider the Weird and the Eerie, point of the Baudrillard of it all, and more!! Then, we talk about Hyperstition, Hypostition, and Retrostition a bit; and we get into Trump's absurd Aliens.gov affair. Keep your ears peeled and your eyes open for Mikey's book, which will be available SOON! The Hyperstition Zone has A LOT that you're gonna want to read if you enjoyed this conversation! - The Retrostition essay- https://open.substack.com/pub/nanceee/p/travels-along-the-fault-line-1-long?r=1jl6yq&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe Make sure to check out Sean's Substack, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! https://www.patreon.com/nancee and as always, stay tuned for more!! Thanks for your time and attention!!! Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nanceee.substack.com [https://nanceee.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Am I Just Doing The Thing? Brolo Bellybutton Episode!

In this Solo Dolo Brolo Bellybutton Extravaganza Episode, I invite you all to my fireside chat where we discuss things that've been on my mind of late. I talk about, Consciousness, Geoffrey Hinton and A.I. (of course), I talk about Family Values and Virtue Signaling (and Anti Natalism too!), I indulge in some reflexivity, and then I talk about Diversity as "our greatest strength" and why Contradiction and Negation make that sentiment true. The second half of this episode is better than the first, so you could just skip the first bit. But, also, I might make a reference toward the end that wouldn't make sense if you hadn't heard the first bit, so there's that. But, probably not, I think you'll be alright to maybe just skip this whole episode, now that I think about it; but, then again, the stuff on Hinton and Subjectivity is good, and also the stuff on Diversity. Oh well, whatever. See ya on the next one!! Oh, here's the link to Chris' short piece on A.I. and Labor - https://platypus1917.org/2020/02/01/robots-and-sweatshops/ Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe Make sure to check out Sean's Substack, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! https://www.patreon.com/nancee and as always, stay tuned for more!! Thanks for your time and attention!!! Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nanceee.substack.com [https://nanceee.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

OOPE (Object Oriented Podcast Episode)

Yo!! Mikey The Dangerous Maybe [https://substack.com/profile/147897623-the-dangerous-maybe] and Sean No Future [https://substack.com/profile/135311278-no-future] are here, and you won't want to to miss this one! in this episode we go all over the place! We start out discussing Retrostition, Hypostition, and Hyperstition (you can read more about this in the linked Substack post). Then we talk about Intelligence and Functionalism, Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence, Object Oriented Ontology versus Heidegger, the wisdom and the madness of crowds, and finally a bit about the Whale Acoustic Model and the possibility of super-intelligent communist cetaceans! See ya when we see ya! https://open.substack.com/pub/nanceee/p/travels-along-the-fault-line-1-long?r=1jl6yq&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe Make sure to check out Sean's Substack, he's been droppin' some heat! - https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! https://www.patreon.com/nancee and as always, stay tuned for more!! Thanks for your time and attention!!! Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nanceee.substack.com [https://nanceee.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

The Founding Document of Modern A.I.??!!

In this brolo dolo episode, I read and discuss the Ur document of the Modern A.I. industry, A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence! Check it out! Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.com/@thedangerousmaybe Three Billion Nances has a Patreon page now too! - https://www.patreon.com/nancee and as always, stay tuned for more!! Thanks for your time and attention!!! Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nanceee.substack.com [https://nanceee.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]