Science, Technology & the Future | James Hughes - Trumpism: Political Division & Distrust @scfu | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
James Hughes is interviewed by Adam Ford on the 2020 #Biden / #Trump election - the political divide, attraction to narcissism, distrust & conspiracy theories, technoprogressive & transhumanist goals, technological progress (i.e. GPT3, deepfake videotech) & fake news, how people think about politics, and issues moving ahead.
Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes_(sociologist)

Discussion points:
00:28 Demonstrations on counting every vote #everyvotecounts
01:25 Contentious issues in #politics - de-fund the police & socialism
12:43 Strong man politics and the attraction to narcissism #toxicmasculinity
15:20 The appointment of Amy Coney Barret
23:18 Appealing to transhumanist or more sophisticated trump supporters - how?
29:16 Ivanka vs Donald as the next republican candidate? Dog whistling vs bull horning
31:08 Will Trump try for 2024?
33:30 A progressive agenda and a republican senate
39:39 Politics & transhumanist goals
46:04 Distrust in the scientific enterprise & science in general. Conspiracy theories
48:06 An update on what IEET are doing
53:09 Contrasting positions of Biden and Trump - Unity vs Division
59:41 Kamala Harris may take over from Biden as president by 2024
03:09 Fake news and emerging technology like #GPT3 & #deepfakes
10:02 Things to do over the next 4 years and beyond to achieve technoprogressive / transhumanist goals


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