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David Auerbach
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Auerbach is a technology writer and critic whose 2014 essay on Roko's Basilisk became a key reference point for understanding how AI thought experiments circulate in online culture and generate affective responses tied to decision theory and existential anxiety. The course uses his work to examine how speculative scenarios about superintelligence function rhetorically and psychologically, particularly when positioned alongside Lacanian logic and Žižek's critique of ideological fantasy, showing how algorithmic anxiety operates as a contemporary form of philosophical dread.
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