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The Ezra Klein Show February 24, 2023 1h 2m

Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Adrian Tchaikovsky's sci-fi series explores civilizations built by non-human intelligences like spiders, octopuses, and corvids, and most recently, AI. These books challenge human perspectives by imagining alien sensoriums and societal structures. The takeaway is to recognize and appreciate the diverse intelligences, both biological and artificial, that already exist in our world and to contemplate their impact on our own understanding.

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