Executive Summary Of Rhetorical Analysis Of Code Hero Games By Alex Peake

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Alex Peake, founder of Primer Labs and creator of the Code Hero game has a mission to foster a new generation of meme hackers who understand their intimate entanglement with technology.

In this lively and engaging talk given at the 2011 Humanity+ conference (held at Caltech), Peake argues that we have a choice ahead of us: to embrace our far more cybernetically enhanced children as they participate in inventing and shaping True AI, or to recoil in horror and fight back in futility. He hopes we choose the former, and founded Primer Labs to play his part in creating the conditions necessary to bring about the autocatalysis of intelligence symbiosis — the intentional marriage of the minds of machine and man.

When queried for comment, Peake

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