Ted Chiang interviewed by Ezra Klein

 Ted Chiang is always worth reading or listening to.  Here's a new interview.

Ted Chiang on the Unchecked Capitalism of Silicon Valley

"There’s a saying, popularized by Fredric Jameson, that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. It’s no surprise that Silicon Valley capitalists don’t want to think about capitalism ending. What’s unexpected is that the way they envision the world ending is through a form of unchecked capitalism, disguised as a superintelligent AI. They have unconsciously created a devil in their own image, a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own."

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