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2023-08-22T18:57:46-06:00

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The Temptations of Technology

Last updated on: August 22, 2023 at 6:57 pm By R. W. Richey

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What effect does technology have on the temptations we experience? If we examine the seven deadly sins it would appear that in all cases technology makes these sins more tempting and more accessible. Why would that be? Read more

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2023-08-14T14:50:23-06:00

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The Future Is Here and It’s Weird

Last updated on: August 14, 2023 at 2:50 pm By R. W. Richey

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When I was a boy I couldn’t imagine anything beyond the year 2000. Now that we're well into a millennium I could scarcely imagine it's worth taking stock of what it looks like, and mostly it's just strange. Read more

End of the World

2023-08-08T20:03:03-06:00

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And There Was Silence in Heaven…

Last updated on: August 8, 2023 at 8:03 pm By R. W. Richey

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In the Book of Revelation we read that when the seventh seal was opened there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. In this post I'm going to engage in some spurious scriptural speculation about what that might mean. Read more

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Apocalypse

2023-08-02T07:33:38-06:00

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Technological Salvation

Last updated on: August 2, 2023 at 7:33 am By R. W. Richey

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Two groups have a narrative of human potential — a sense of humanity’s ultimate destiny: the Actively Religious and the Radical Humanists. The former our ultimate salvation will occur in partnership with the divine (e.g. God). For the latter we are destined to be saved by our own efforts. These similarities invite us to consider both as paths to salvation, albeit very different ones. Read more

Space Travel

2023-07-24T19:35:41-06:00

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Chesterton’s Fence and Technology

Last updated on: July 24, 2023 at 7:35 pm By R. W. Richey

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G. K. Chesterton noted that one shouldn't remove a fence until you understand why it was there in the first place. This is a great analogy for the concept of the traditions which have been passed down to us by religion. Technology allows us to remove a lot of fences, but are we sure we understand why they were there to begin with? Read more

Cultural Evolution

2023-07-17T06:24:43-06:00

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Separating the Beneficial From the Barbarous

Last updated on: July 17, 2023 at 6:24 am By R. W. Richey

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Clearly there are some traditions which should be abandoned. And just as clearly there are some which should be preserved. But what are we to do with the vast majority which fall in the middle? Read more

Cultural Evolution

2023-07-17T06:25:39-06:00

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The Technology of Religion vs. The Technology of Progress

Last updated on: July 17, 2023 at 6:25 am By R. W. Richey

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Religion is a very old technology, and the wisdom contains is often hard to identify. This is unlike the technology we create intentionally, where the goal is always obvious. When these two technologies come into conflict who should we decide between them. It's easy and attractive to go with the new, but by dispensing with the old we may be incurring harms that will only manifest years or decades later. Read more

Cultural Evolution

2023-07-06T04:47:40-06:00

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Religion is Technology

Last updated on: July 6, 2023 at 4:47 am By R. W. Richey

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Religion is often viewed as being completely different from technology, but in actuality religion is a technology, one of the oldest forms of it in fact. It's a particularly important form of technology one that we abandon at our peril. Read more

Cultural Evolution

2023-06-23T12:23:37-06:00

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A Judgment Day for AIs

Last updated on: June 23, 2023 at 12:23 pm By R. W. Richey

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If AIs are going to act as independent agents then they should be praised for the virtues and judged for their sins just as we all are. And in fact this judgment is one of the few things that will ensure their morality. Read more

Artificial Intelligence

2023-06-16T10:37:04-06:00

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Morality for Robots and AIs

Last updated on: June 16, 2023 at 10:37 am By R. W. Richey

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AI risk has been in the news a lot lately. One way to reduce that risk is to make sure that AIs are moral. But what does morality even mean when you're talking about robots and AIs? Read more

Artificial Intelligence

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