A Secular Age (Charles Taylor): every movement carries the seed of its own reversal
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
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the main points that he makes in there repeatedly is that Whenever you have a new social movement, That movement always contains the seed for its own demise or its own reversal, whatever word you choose to put there.
Episode 274: Vibe Cloning (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:59:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Dave returns to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, which he's discussed before. Its repeated point is that every new social movement carries the seed of its own demise or reversal. He applies it to AI: it'll look unstoppable and change the world, and it will also eventually be replaced by something we don't yet understand.
Not in the audio. The book title and author ('Charles Taylor', 'a secular age') are named in the preceding cues, which voice matching labeled Unknown, so who named them isn't confirmed. Dave says 'we've talked about this before' about Taylor.
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Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:14:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
read Secular Age, the Charles Taylor books. I finished Secular
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