28: Everything In Its Right Place
12/31/23 • 71 min
On today’s show, Chong and Dan look back on an eventful year. Along major dimensions - in technology, in geopolitics, in our socio-emotional lives, it feels like things are accelerating and spinning out of control. This leads to a discussion about peace - what is it, and how can we achieve it? Why does it seem like peace is only ever temporary? Where does chaos and disorder come from, that disturb the peace? Dan concludes with reflections on where ultimate peace is found - yes, Jesus - but goes to great lengths to explain this in the least-trite way possible.
Music by: Julian Wan
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Show notes
Big things have been happening (2:55)
- Social-technological - AI, medicine, Internet-mediated life...
- Geopolitical - Breakdown of Pax Americana
- Emotional-psychological - Awareness, acceptance and exploitation of disorders within the heart
- The external things affect us individually, and vice versa
The Nine Breakthroughs of the Year
How Anxiety Became Content
What do we mean by peace? (26:05)
- Absence of bad stuff; presence of good stuff
- Can we be at peace, even when things around us are bad?
- "Shalom" - the way things ought to be
What causes chaos and disorder? (37:50)
- Left-Right answer, circa early 2000s - individuals vs society
- Left-Right answer, circa 2020s - Common-Enemy politics
- The upshot - we are being affected both too little and too much by the outside world
Conclusion (53:20)
- Peace comes from an external intervention into the broken human world
- Peace requires a change in perspective - cosmic, eternal
- People are looking for peace; Christians can help them find it
On today’s show, Chong and Dan look back on an eventful year. Along major dimensions - in technology, in geopolitics, in our socio-emotional lives, it feels like things are accelerating and spinning out of control. This leads to a discussion about peace - what is it, and how can we achieve it? Why does it seem like peace is only ever temporary? Where does chaos and disorder come from, that disturb the peace? Dan concludes with reflections on where ultimate peace is found - yes, Jesus - but goes to great lengths to explain this in the least-trite way possible.
Music by: Julian Wan
Connect with us
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ingoodfaithfm
- Twitter/X - https://twitter.com/ingoodfaithfm
- Email - [email protected]
Show notes
Big things have been happening (2:55)
- Social-technological - AI, medicine, Internet-mediated life...
- Geopolitical - Breakdown of Pax Americana
- Emotional-psychological - Awareness, acceptance and exploitation of disorders within the heart
- The external things affect us individually, and vice versa
The Nine Breakthroughs of the Year
How Anxiety Became Content
What do we mean by peace? (26:05)
- Absence of bad stuff; presence of good stuff
- Can we be at peace, even when things around us are bad?
- "Shalom" - the way things ought to be
What causes chaos and disorder? (37:50)
- Left-Right answer, circa early 2000s - individuals vs society
- Left-Right answer, circa 2020s - Common-Enemy politics
- The upshot - we are being affected both too little and too much by the outside world
Conclusion (53:20)
- Peace comes from an external intervention into the broken human world
- Peace requires a change in perspective - cosmic, eternal
- People are looking for peace; Christians can help them find it
Previous Episode
27: We Are Not Ready
On today’s show, Chong and Dan plant their flag on the next transformational change facing society: Artificial Intelligence (AI). After a decades-long pursuit, pioneering researchers and organisations have been releasing AI products into the world, with amazing and unsettling results. We provide a primer on AI, focusing on ChatGPT and its Large Language Model relatives. Then Chong provides Dan with three near-future, AI-driven scenarios, to spark a discussion of what could come next. AI seems set to disrupt society, but we are still unsure by how much, given that so much of society still operates in the physical world. To be continued...
Music by: Julian Wan
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Show notes
Something big is happening (1:41)
- Human technology as (i) fire, (ii) sharp sticks and (ii) our brains
- The biggest upgrade to our brains is happening right now
- Planting the flag on AI - not exploring all the issues, but rather what it is and what it could mean for us
Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history
AI primer (11:43)
- Neural networks, Large Language Models (LLM) and generative AI
- Intro to ChatGPT - how it works, what can be done
How to Become an Expert on A.I.
How Does ChatGPT Really Work?
What all this could mean (31:44)
- Scenario 1 - Disruption of “knowledge work”
- Scenario 2 - Teaching and learning overhauled
- Scenario 3 - “Her” will be real life
- How much does all this matter? Torn between “not as much” and “a whole lot”
Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job?
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companions. Then they lost them
You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills
Conclusion (1:07:09)
- We should be careful when wielding words...
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