Probably because Fox is the only major news outlet with a significant libertarian presence, Fox has been giving more coverage than other major news outlets on these kinds of issues for a while. OReilly had the interview. I believe Beck has talked about most everything AI—existential risk, uploading, transhumanism. Even Stossel has touched on these topics.
Probably because Fox is the only major news outlet with a significant libertarian presence, Fox has been giving more coverage than other major news outlets on these kinds of issues for a while.
I don’t quite see why one would expect that to be associated with libertarianism, and in so far as some aspects of some of these ideas connect to that (transhumanism definitely has a “let me do what I want” aspect), other things that are associated with Fox, such as social conservativism would militate against that. And given standard ideological biases, my naive guess would be that libertarians would be less accepting of notions of existential risk rather than more.
Probably because Fox is the only major news outlet with a significant libertarian presence, Fox has been giving more coverage than other major news outlets on these kinds of issues for a while. OReilly had the interview. I believe Beck has talked about most everything AI—existential risk, uploading, transhumanism. Even Stossel has touched on these topics.
I don’t quite see why one would expect that to be associated with libertarianism, and in so far as some aspects of some of these ideas connect to that (transhumanism definitely has a “let me do what I want” aspect), other things that are associated with Fox, such as social conservativism would militate against that. And given standard ideological biases, my naive guess would be that libertarians would be less accepting of notions of existential risk rather than more.