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Easter Greetings! 2020
The Singularity Saints Podcast
04/11/20 • 1 min
Easter greetings and reflections on Holy Saturday.
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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )
04/11/20 • 1 min
025: Lent, Lockdown, and Love
The Singularity Saints Podcast
03/21/20 • 47 min
With COVID-19 being the news of the day, it can seem like there are only two options for response; panic and hoard toilet paper, or be dismissive of the whole thing. But maybe there is a better path...and our present season of Lent may help us with perspective.
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Topic:
- COVID-19 in our world
- The problem of false information
- The danger of panic
- The Imperial College Report
- How COVID-19 affects us moving forward
- Autonomy and telecommuting
- Automation
- Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought: https://singularityhub.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-may-mean-automation-is-coming-sooner-than-we-thought/
- Medical Advancements
- Hospital Procedures
- How Robots Are Helping to Fight the Coronavirus Outbreak: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-helping-to-fight-coronavirus-outbreak
- Universal Basic Income
For the Church:
- Canceling church services
- “Not having a spirit of fear”
- Wisdom v. fear
- Faith and responsibility in balance
- Social distancing as an act of sacrificial love
- Finding new ways of connecting as a church
- Doug Este’s book SimChurch
- Fellowship without physical presence
- Loving those in need during troubled times
- Checking in on seniors
- Providing connection for singles
- Providing tangible needs
- The church’s unity in times of need
- Praying for our enemies
- Lockdown in the season of Lent
- Time of the Virus : https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/03/the-time-of-the-virus
Scriptures Referenced:
- 2 Timothy 1:7
- Nehemiah 4:9
- Acts 4:34-35
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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/ )
03/21/20 • 47 min
Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #4
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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/)
03/11/20 • 6 min
024: Funding the Future
The Singularity Saints Podcast
02/28/20 • 85 min
If AI and automation take all of the jobs, how will we provide for everyone’s needs? Universal Basic Income? Negative tax rates? Universal Services? Investments and new equilibrium? How will we fund the future?
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Topics:
- Expectations of the future jobs market
- Bain and Company, Macro-trends Group: https://www.bain.com/insights/labor-2030-the-collision-of-demographics-automation-and-inequality/
- Universal Basic Income
- Andrew Yang’s UBI Freedom Dividend: https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
- Cost of UBI
- Kimberly Amadeo, US Economy Expert with The Balance: https://www.thebalance.com/universal-basic-income-4160668
- Poverty levels and the relationship with UBI
- Relationship between government and citizens
- Mark Kincheloe https://www.singularityweblog.com/a-universal-basic-income-is-not-the-solution/
- UBI and inflation
- UBI in other nations
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/23/finland-to-end-basic-income-trial-after-two-years
- Guaranteed Employment
- Government guarantees of employment
- Historical example: Civilian Conservation Corp.
- Work verses productivity
- Universal Basic Services
- Government provision of basic needs and services
- Universal basic services could work better than basic income to combat 'rise of the robots', say experts https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/universal-basic-services-idea-better-basic-income-citizens-social-housing-ucl-a7993476.html
- Balance of needs
- Challenges with availability and distribution of resources
- Tax Plans
- Public Policy and Government Review: Exploring Alternatives to the Universal Basic Income: https://ppgreview.ca/2017/03/31/exploring-alternatives-to-the-universal-basic-income/
- Negative tax rates
- Tax Credits
- New Equilibrium and Investment
- Lowering costs and incomes create a new balance
- The Singularity as a driver of economic growth
- Robin Hanson, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/economics-of-the-singularity
- Personal investment in automation as a means of generating income
- The challenges of maximum participation
- Kevin Morris, Electronic Engineering Journal, https://www.eejournal.com/article/fear-the-economic-singularity/
- What to expect from an accelerating economy
- William Nordhaus, Are We Approaching Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21547.pdf
- Will new jobs fill the void?
For the Church
- Dealing with a diversity of opinions with grace
- Binding and loosing – values in contemporary practical application
- Was the early church Socialist or Communist?
- Thomas More’s Utopia and UBI
- Dealing with covetousness, greed, and charity
- Ministry of compassion
- Finding meaning apart from work
Looking Ahead
- Stanford researchers develop artificial intelligence tool to help detect brain aneurysms
- https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/07/ai-tool-helps-radiologists-detect-brain-aneurysms/
Scripture Passages Referenced
- Deuteronomy 15:11
- Matthew 16:19
- Acts 4:34-35
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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. ( ht...
02/28/20 • 85 min
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/)
02/17/20 • 6 min
Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #2
The Singularity Saints Podcast
02/06/20 • 0 min
The second of the new 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.
Stories:
- Twitter to start labeling deepfakes but sets high bar for removal
- Elon Musk promotes Texas ‘career day’ as SpaceX files paperwork for Starship flight as early as March
- An AI helps uncover secret sketches by Leonardo da Vinci
- Artist tricks Google Maps into recording traffic jam with 99 cellphones and a wagon
- LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus
- Chemists Discovered the Structure of a Key Influenza Protein – Breakthrough Could Lead to Flu Treatment
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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/)
02/06/20 • 0 min
Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #1
The Singularity Saints Podcast
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
Find us online at:
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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/)
01/30/20 • 7 min
023: Surrendering Moral Agency
The Singularity Saints Podcast
01/25/20 • 72 min
Advancements in technology are aimed at making life safer, easier, and more enjoyable. Could we end up surrendering something in the process; moral agency and personal responsibility? And what might that trade get us?
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Topics:
- The Singularity Saints Podcast celebrates its first birthday!
- First Things: Algorithm Religion by John Waters
- John Waters a Neo-Luddite?
- Autonomous Vehicles and decision making with moral weight
- Willingly surrendering moral agency to artificial intelligence
- AI versus human driving capabilities
- AI versus human values in decision making
- Benefits in the aggregate versus consequences in the specific
- Computer Weekly: How Soon Will We Be Driving Autonomous Cars by Zach Emmanuel
- https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450429466/How-soon-will-we-be-driving-fully-autonomous-cars
- Predictions of Andrew Lee, Octo Telematics
- Who or what bears legal responsibility for the actions of AI?
- Defining moral agency
- Assessing moral agency and human relations
- Foundations for moral responsibility
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Responsibility
- Moral responsibility and power
- Good Samaritan laws and Duty to Rescue laws
- Moral responsibility and freedom
- Surrendering moral responsibility to something that cannot have moral agency
- Death caused by Robots
- Think Artificial: The First Humans Killed by Robots
- http://www.thinkartificial.org/aesthetics/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/
- Robert Williams and Kenji Urada
- Government views on responsibility of autonomous vehicles
- Wired: Feds Say They'll Count Computers As Human Drivers by Alex Davies
- https://www.wired.com/2016/02/feds-say-theyll-count-computers-as-human-drivers/
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s letter to Google
- Robert Kane on moral responsibility
- Social outcomes of ethical abdication to AI
- Laws and the ideals of justice
- Crimes without perpetrators
- Forbes: A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What? By Ryan Calo
- Social policy shaped by trusting AI
For the Church
- Godlike trust in AI and idolatry
- God and moral neutrality
- Moral responsibility in Old Testament
- Making a place to discuss these issues
- Christian citizen’s influence on public policy
Looking Ahead
- Sweating electronics for temperature control
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mobile-phones-in-the-future-could-sweat-to-keep-cool-thanks-to-a-perspiring-material-just-three-times-as-thick-as-a-human-hair/ar-BBZdPW8
Passages Referenced
- Psalm 97:10
- Psalm 5:4-6
- 1 Timothy 2:3-6
- Exodus 21:33-34
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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. (
01/25/20 • 72 min
Merry Christmas, 2019
The Singularity Saints Podcast
12/24/19 • 0 min
Merry Christmas, from the Singularity Saints Podcast!
12/24/19 • 0 min
026: The Emerging Final Frontier
The Singularity Saints Podcast
06/07/20 • 57 min
Space may be the final frontier, but what technology will be required to really get us out there, beyond our solar systems and out among the stars. What emerging technology will shape the future of space exploration? Part 1 of 2.
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Topics:
- Entering a new age of space exploration
- BBC: Space 2020: What does the future hold?
- Returning to the Moon
- Private Space travel
- The Moon as a new jumping-off point
- NASA: NASA to Return Humans to the Moon
- AI and space exploration
- The International Society of Optics and Photonics: Artificial Intelligence and Space Exploration
- AI and the search for exoplanets
- AI and probes
- AI/Machines and the limits of the human body
- Autonav for Mars Rover
- NASA: Leave the Driving to Autonav
- Singularity Hub: AI Is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive
- The search for stromatolites on Mars
- Searching for water and life on Jupiter’s Europa
- AI and medical care for astronauts
- AI and terraforming
- BioCarbon Engineering and drone planting
- Mining in Space
- BBC: The truth about asteroid mining
- Independent: Asteroid mining made legal after Barack Obama gives US citizens the right to own parts of celestial bodies
- 2015: U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act
- MIT: How the asteroid-mining bubble burst
- Issues and challenges of asteroid mining in the near future
- Space Tourism
- Popular Mechanics: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne Rocket Is Ready for Its First Full Flight Test
- Life in the universe
- Eurpoa Clipper’s search on Jupiter’s moon
- The Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox
- Singularity Hub: Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox
Stick around for Part 2, with out For The Church Segment and the Looking Ahead Segment
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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/ )
06/07/20 • 57 min
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