I really enjoyed this one. Poulos occasionally loses me with the run-on apocalyptic commentary, but there's enough here to sink my teeth into to make it worth another listen later this week.
I thought the idea Darryl posited on technology becoming a demonically possessive force for humanity was interesting. I have a slightly different ta…
I really enjoyed this one. Poulos occasionally loses me with the run-on apocalyptic commentary, but there's enough here to sink my teeth into to make it worth another listen later this week.
I thought the idea Darryl posited on technology becoming a demonically possessive force for humanity was interesting. I have a slightly different take, but we end up in similar places. I'm of the opinion that short of a spiritual intervention (and I mean that more literally than an acceptance of some cheap neo-gnostic enlightenment), human beings are pretty much all on a trajectory of becoming the worst versions of themselves. Indeed, if there is a Hell, it's filled with such beings. The biblical imagery of flames and physical torment represent something far worse, an eternity of every character flaw and propensity toward evil getting exponentially worse. If my (admittedly bleak) outlook on human nature is anywhere close to accurate, then the real danger isn't that technology would come to possess our thought processes, but that we would give a class of people (or worse, everyone) a form of artificial immortality, and in doing so would bring Hell to earth. It's less the risk of being possessed by a demon and more a danger of becoming a demon yourself. At this point, I'll go on the record in saying that I think Elon Musk's Neuralink pursuit is a really, really bad idea.
I really enjoyed this one. Poulos occasionally loses me with the run-on apocalyptic commentary, but there's enough here to sink my teeth into to make it worth another listen later this week.
I thought the idea Darryl posited on technology becoming a demonically possessive force for humanity was interesting. I have a slightly different take, but we end up in similar places. I'm of the opinion that short of a spiritual intervention (and I mean that more literally than an acceptance of some cheap neo-gnostic enlightenment), human beings are pretty much all on a trajectory of becoming the worst versions of themselves. Indeed, if there is a Hell, it's filled with such beings. The biblical imagery of flames and physical torment represent something far worse, an eternity of every character flaw and propensity toward evil getting exponentially worse. If my (admittedly bleak) outlook on human nature is anywhere close to accurate, then the real danger isn't that technology would come to possess our thought processes, but that we would give a class of people (or worse, everyone) a form of artificial immortality, and in doing so would bring Hell to earth. It's less the risk of being possessed by a demon and more a danger of becoming a demon yourself. At this point, I'll go on the record in saying that I think Elon Musk's Neuralink pursuit is a really, really bad idea.