Description

Digging into Kurzweil’s deficient view of culture and human nature—from sex and family to epistemology and human dignity.

The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil

Show Notes

Things mentioned on the show

• Stephen’s music blog
• 7.06 and 7.07: The ERLC AI Statement Parts 1 and 2
• Mass Effect and Mass Affection
• The Matrix
• I, Robot
• Tolkien, Aüle, dwarves:
  • Dwarves: Origin at Tolkien Gateway
  • Aüle: The Creation of the Dwarves at Lord of the Rings Wiki
• Turing test and Alan Turing
  • Lanier via Jacobs, 59th thesis

Upcoming books

• May: Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (and the movie!)
• June: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Brown

Music

• “SOL” by Pascal Schumacher
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

Sponsors

Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:

• Daniel Ellcey
• Douglas Campos
• Jake Grant
• Marnix Klooster
• Spencer Smith

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