Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 3)

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• 00:00:01

  Hello, everyone. Welcome to Nick Lan's Anthropo, the Future of Human Insecurity Seminar, Session 3. I'm going to pass on the camera and the mic to Nick to start. Am I on? Welcome, everybody. Great to see you all. This week, I put two texts up that I'm going to treat as being our sort of strange attractor for this…

• 00:23:35

  I don't know. But something like the Church-Turing thesis, these sort of decisive papers on the theory of computation, I think they have to be put in this context. You know, they've already got these machines, they've already got punch-card technology that's come out of these, of these lineages, and they already…

• 00:44:12

  Specifically, insofar as that, and I mean, obviously, dating modernity is very difficult, but there is something that occurs with the modern, with the capital form, with the emergence of the commodity that does cause a very specific rupture, which sort of does start to begin this process. And this is what the Marx…

• 01:02:40

  No, for sure. I mean, for sure these scenarios all need to be pursued, but I'm skeptical about exactly what you're saying here. Like, if we take it up to the most abstract level of this notion of doubt, people sitting around, what do we mean by the AI threat? And obviously there's the lurid versions of something…

• 01:23:40

  And then, obviously, on a more macro level, you want consumers, but then you've got a coordination problem. So this is from, we're now sort of, as we go out of the way from the micro to the macro, we're moving... We're drifting left in terms of... Yeah. ...of political commentary. And so we've drifted a little…

• 01:42:14

  Reality situations and things like this. And that seems to me like an okay thing because I like art- So we'll just ask people better. So UBI- UBI is a form of asking for better zoos. Right. That's, yeah, it's not as if the zoo is coming. The zoo is already here. But, I mean, maybe this seems now from your perspective…

• 02:02:34

  Actually, we haven't because to presuppose there will be an enemy but not know much about how that enemy thinks or will emerge, would be very bad risk management. So, you know, I work in information security and the biggest fear is advanced persistent threats which are essentially targeted attacks against…

• 02:21:51

  But yeah, so I'm going to stop the broadcast and I'll see you guys next week. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.