37:21 You know, something that Steve mentioned actually a number of times and you as well, the working class element of this media sphere, that's one reason I feel at home. But also that is really the backbone of the country and the culture. But that doesn't, you can't take it for granted. Clearly, whatever the capabilities are of any autonomous system, that's unknown. If you take everything that different futurists are putting forward as fact, as gospel, for one thing you live in about a hundred different conflicting futures, but for another is completely demoralizing when you look at those who do believe that the working class will be the first to go. And even- And they're telling you you're obsolete. Absolutely. Now they've kind of shifted it over to the white collar, right? So chat GPT or its later iterations are going to replace first accountants
38:18 journalists, script writers, but then doctors, lawyers, and that means they can program it. So let's start here. Let's go through for listeners, because you're an expert on this, the book's coming out, and you're doing an amazing job in the war room as their desk editor on transhumanism. Define what AI is, the different branches, and let's just go through what's in the book and all the key points you want to make. AI, I think, sits at the pinnacle of everything we call transhumanism. Because, you know, initially, and you know this history very well, initially you had Julian Huxley coining the term, but he's riding on the back of generations of eugenicists
38:57 So transhumanism begins with the body, with eugenics, with this desire to perfect the human germline, and also, importantly, to perfect human culture, to streamline human culture, to make it the most excellent possible form. that of the greatest business of all, evolution. This is 1956. But this is also, it's already old news by that point. As things move along though, you see more and more of the technology itself become the center of focus. So it begins with these, you had long before Huxley,
39:52 You had Carol Capek, who wrote the play Rossum's Universal Robots. That was in 29, I believe, and the entire idea is that the human working class is replaced by automata, right? And so this idea is very, very old, and as it shifts towards the machine, it begins first with the human body being replaced, or at least augmented by the machine, and then the human mind Alan Turing believed that we would create superhuman intelligence in the 50s, Claude Shannon believed the same, and these are the forefathers of computing. These are the men who pioneered everything, basically this entire infrastructure around us. Their idea was that these computers would become superhuman. That's the God you're talking about, right?
40:42 If it's just slightly superhuman, if it's just slightly superior to the most superior human, it's like a Greek god or a lesser demigod. But if you have a computer like Ray Kurzweil dreams of, whether it's a swarm or individual, you have Basically something like the Judeo-Christian God something like omnipotence something like omniscience and that's what I already says I don't believe in the God Jesus up in the clouds. I live in Microsoft and Apple up in the clouds That's right. That's right. And he's an atheist and that's I think he's a really good example Kurzweil said mentality the in the atheism is the vacuum that made way for scientism and transhumanism science and technology under
41:27 the guidance of religion is a very, very different thing than science and religion in the absence of any supernatural power. First they say there is no God, next they say they are God. So it's like Animal Farm. But instead of like, oh, four legs good, two legs bad, well later, well, four legs good, two legs okay. Now at the end, four legs bad again, two legs good, the pigs are walking upright, and that's really it. They're telling you that we're God, And Kurzweil said, I don't believe in God yet. And again, almost nothing they say ever works. It's all overhyped. Really what what what chat GPT almost does is just plagiarize and steal what we already made and represent it to us. We go, that's beautiful and incredible. And it's something we did just collage together. So I mean, we don't have to adopt this.