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The speaker says some people in Silicon Valley conceptualize humans as causal patterns or programs that could be uploaded to computers.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“Some of them think of us as causal patterns or as programs,”
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“I take programs that could be uploaded to computers and whatnot.”17:16Report a misattribution
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