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132. Duncan Reyburn: How Modernity Cuts Us Off From the Holy

I have Duncan on to discuss his recent piece on artificial intelligence and the holy. We delve into how the technological society society cuts us off from God.

[Housekeeping: some of you have noticed audio problems later in the videos. I suspect that this has something to do with the process of compiling the longer videos from MP3 into MP4 as my laptop was purchased for spreadsheets, word processing and opening web pages, not video processing and so struggles to do these tasks. I have uploaded a separate MP3 file for podcast listening/RSS feeds. If the issues persist, let me know and I will go back to just audio.]

If you have not already subscribed to Duncan’s Substack, you should rectify that oversight.

Here is the piece we discuss. You should give it a read.

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The Eucatastrophologist
Simulating the holy
There is a contradiction at the heart of so much talk on AI development. On the one hand, AI is regarded as a “fundamental technological breakthrough,” as Elon Musk has said. On the other hand, however, it is “our biggest existential threat,” as Musk has also said. Fei-Fei Li of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI has remarked, “Artificial intell…
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