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Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #4
The Singularity Saints Podcast
03/11/20 • 6 min
Dusty stars, "Landmark Codes," and a nano-vortex, all on the 4th edition of The Faster Than The Future Mini-cast.
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The fourth of The Faster Than the Future mini-casts. With only five minutes, I’ll race the clock to share stories of science and technology. Some will be of great importance, some of fascinating interest, some just odd, but all will be fast.
Sources:
- #1 Weird, dimming star Betelgeuse may have a dusty explanation
- #2 MIT Neuroscientists Identify “Landmark Code” in the Brain That Helps Us Navigate
- #3 Caught in a spin: Spiral vortex streamlines delivery of nanomaterials into cells
- #4 How Robots Are Helping to Fight the Coronavirus Outbreak
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
Countdown music: Epic Game Music by klavo1982. (https://freesound.org/people/klavo1985/)
Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #3
The Singularity Saints Podcast
02/17/20 • 6 min
The third of The Faster Than the Future mini-casts. With only five minutes, I’ll race the clock to share stories of science and technology. Some will be of great importance, some of fascinating interest, some just odd, but all will be fast.
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Sources:
- #1 Elon Musk's Boring Company excavates first tunnel for Vegas loop
- #2 Apple Watch beat the Swiss watch industry in sales in 2019
- #3 San Diego lab claims to have discovered a coronavirus vaccine in 3 hours — but testing it will take months
- #4 RFID sensor is powered by dirty diapers
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
Countdown music: Epic Game Music by klavo1982. (https://freesound.org/people/klavo1985/)
Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #1
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01/30/20 • 7 min
As the year 2020 gets off to a fresh start, we launch new The Faster Than the Future mini-casts. With only five minutes, I’ll race the clock to share stories of science and technology. Some will be of great importance, some of fascinating interest, some just odd, but all will be fast.----more----
Stories:
- Meet Trump’s New 5G Czar
- MLB Will Use Robot Umpire System in Spring Training
- Betelgeuse, a Supergiant Star, May be About to Blow
- GM Will Spend $2.2 Billion to Build Electric and Autonomous Vehicles at Detroit Plant
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
Countdown music: Epic Game Music by klavo1982. (https://freesound.org/people/klavo1985/)
021: Left in the Dust
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10/21/19 • 61 min
As technology moves forward in ways that change what it means to be human, what happens to those of us who don't want to go along? And what does that mean for the church and its relevance and witness?
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Topics:
- Acceptance and Rejection on various technologies
- Multiple reasons people may object to the same technology
- Religious and non-religious objections
- Peter Clarke’s Evil Tech? How The Mark of the Beast Could Shape Biometric Regulation
- Interpreting the present situation
- Living as a human in a post-human world
- Human “Nature Preserves” for the unaugmented
- Ray Kurzweil on those who choose not to augment:
- Political and social agency of the unaugmented
- Relationship between he human and post-human
- Eschatological expectations and technology
- See episode 4 of The Singularity Saints Podcast: Eschatological Confusion
- Discussing our disagreements
- Christian witness in a world divided by technology
- Losing out witness in isolation
- The Amish as an example of modern religious isolation
- Looking Ahead:
- Sensory glove for prosthesis: https://newatlas.com/medical/electronic-glove-prosthetic-hands-senses/
- Mind-controlled exoskeleton: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614476/a-brain-controlled-exoskeleton-has-let-a-paralyzed-man-walk-in-the-lab/
Scriptures References:
- Matthew 5:13-16
- Romans 12:2
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )
020: Peter Clarke & The Singularity Survival Guide
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09/22/19 • 59 min
I’m joined today by writer Peter Clarke, author of multiple articles on technology and the recently published satirical novel The Singularity Survival Guide. Peter gives his take on how technology will affect our social issues and how to keep a smile on your face in spite of an uncertain future.
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Links to essays and works mentioned in the interview:
Peter Clarke's website: https://www.petermclarke.com/
The Singularity Survival Guide: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1798981548
Politicians are Superheroes: https://www.amazon.com/Politicians-are-Superheroes-Peter-Clarke/dp/1948920018
Jokes Literary Review: http://www.jokesliteraryreview.com/
Peter’s Interview with Andrew Yang: https://quillette.com/2018/10/06/a-new-kind-of-economy-an-interview-with-andrew-yang/
Why Politics Needs the Futuristic Perspective: https://quillette.com/2018/08/20/why-politics-needs-the-futuristic-perspective/
Evil Tech? How The Mark of the Beast Could Shape Biometric Regulation: https://thehumanist.com/commentary/evil-tech-how-the-mark-of-the-beast-could-shape-biometric-regulations
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )
017: What about Transhumanism?
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07/14/19 • 93 min
What happens when all of our technological predictions converge on the human person? Today we discuss the growing movement of transhumanism. What is it, what are it’s hopes, and can a Christian be a transhumanist?
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Topics:
- Defining Transhumanism
- The history and rise of transhumanism
- Humanity Plus and their definition
- Post-Humanity
- The inevitability of transhumanism
- Transhumanism in fiction
- Criticisms and objections
- Transhumanism is unnatural
- The importance of human limitations
- Transhumanism’s secular edge
- Zoltan Istvan and an atheist transhumanism: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/im-an-atheist-therefore-i_b_4388778
- Christopher Benek’s response to Istvan: https://hplusmagazine.com/2014/03/25/religion-for-humanity/
- Transhumanism as a “secular religion”
- Wesley Smith’s “New Time Religion”: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/12/new-time-religion
- Christian Transhumanism: https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/about
- Chief human trait: intelligence or relationality
- Transhumanism and virtue
- Transhumanism: Neo-Gnostic or materialism?
- Micah Redding, Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Association: http://christandpopculture.com/can-transhumanism-lead-us-back-to-orthodoxy/
- Balanced Rhetoric
- A technological hermeneutic: https://www.christopherbenek.com/2016/06/developing-a-new-hermeneutic-of-intelligence-and-reality/
- Looking Ahead: STEET and microsleep
Verses Referenced:
- 1 Corinthians 13:11-13
- Genesis 1:31
- Ephesians 1:17-18
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )
016: Science Fiction with Nate Ward
The Singularity Saints Podcast
06/21/19 • 84 min
Science Fiction can be more than cheap genre fiction with little value. Joined by my guest, Nate Ward of The Things We Say Podcast, we discuss how science fiction can inspire and what we think some gets right and some gets wrong.
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Notes:
- My guest is Nate Ward, one of the two hosts of The Things We Say podcast.
- Science fiction as meaningful literature and media
- Levels of science fiction
- Things we think Sci-Fi gets right and wrong
- Star Trek’s Holodecks
- The failure of utopian visions
- Data, AI, and motivation
- AI and the Prime Directive
- Sound in space
- Creating cultures
- Taking human problems to the starts
- Religion in Science Fiction
- Economics in Science Fiction
- Science Fiction we talk about:
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Firefly
- The Expanse book series by S.A. Corey
- Battle Star Galactica
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- The Orville
- A book whose title and author shall not be named…
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )
015: Technology and Warfare, PT 2
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06/06/19 • 91 min
How will the emergence of new technologies change the face of warfare? On what basis and theological foundation may Christians respond? With so many divergent views, can there be a place for Christians to critique and question these advancements? This is part 2 of 2.
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Topics:
- Disagreement and the challenge of speaking on a Christian view of warfare
- A spectrum of Christian views on warfare
- Holy War/Jihad/Crusade
- Absolutist Pacifism
- Variations in Pacifism
- John Howard Yoder
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Scriptural and theological roots
- Political Realism
- Christian Realism
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Realist Pacifism
- Just War Perspective
- The Presumption of Justice – the tranquillitas ordinis
- Unjust Peace v. Just Peace
- *In clarification of a comment in the episode regarding Hauerwas
- Hauerwas: “ultimate moral challenge for a pacifist is you may have to watch the innocent die.”
- https://www.premierchristianradio.com/content/view/full/348878 or for a summary: https://juicyecumenism.com/2014/12/24/stanley-hauerwas-nigel-biggar-just-war-vs-pacifism/
- Just War Criteria
- “Lazy” Just War
- “General” Just War
- “Strict” Just War
- Dr. Daniel Bell Jr. “Just War as Christian Discipleship”
- Automation and love of enemy
- Automation and responsibility
- AI decision making, accountability, and proportionality
- Technology and Training
- Col. Dave Grossman’s "On Killing"
- Video games and trained reflexes
- Training without accountability and discipline
- Technology and civilian casualties
- Andrew Walker: Can Weaponry Be Humane?
- https://providencemag.com/2019/05/can-weaponry-be-humane/
- RX9 missile development
- Authority, accountability, and the low cost of entry
- Military technology and non-violent action
- AI and guarding against human passions
- Looking Ahead: Bee Plus
Verses Referenced
- Matthew 5: 39-42
- Matthew 5: 43-44
- Matthew 26:52
- Proverbs 24:11-12
Facebook: fb.me/SGSTPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGSTPodcast
Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )
Easter Greetings! 2019
The Singularity Saints Podcast
04/21/19 • 1 min
Let's never forget the real turning point in history; the resurrection of Jesus Christ. May you have a blessed Easter.
Easter Greetings! 2020
The Singularity Saints Podcast
04/11/20 • 1 min
Easter greetings and reflections on Holy Saturday.
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