Ep 11: Singularity & Superheroes
Micah and Amy discuss the disruptiveness of the Singularity, the creepiness of robots, the awesomeness of superheroes, and the importance of origin stories.
- Some nerdiness about the [literal mathematical singularities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(mathematics)) at the center of black holes
- vs the metaphorical singularities we will be talking about the rest of the time
- Moore's Law and the technological singularity
- Cultural change and the cultural singularity
- The Intern and the shifting expectations around job and career in a time of accelerating change
- The images we have in our minds when we talk about the singularity. Mine is a vortex, Amy's is a golden tetrahedron.
- It's a Wonderful Life, and our images of God. A kid who envisioned God as a slice of pizza.
- Isaac Asimov, the 3 Laws of Robotics
- Battlestar Galatica and AI
- Biomimicry & insectoid vs humanoid robots
- Plastic, metal, and why the robots of the future will be more biological
- The transformations of secular transhumanism vs the more extreme transformations of Christianity
- The uncanny valley and why we're creeped out by dolls and clowns
- Ultron and why we envision artificial intelligences as sociopaths
- The assumption that AI can't have compassion
- Why Stephen Hawking should be working harder on his comedy
- The singularity as rapture of the nerds, and Ray Kurzweil's coming paradise
- The creator of Minecraft and living in a world without conflict
- Alexander the Great lamenting that there were no more worlds left to conquer
- Heaven is not the end of the road. It's stepping up to the next challenge.
- Jeanine Thweat-Bates and her talk on cyborgs, superheroes, and the importance of origin stories
- Blast from the Past and the emotional drive behind Science & Technology
- Don Miller's Blue Like Jazz, Micah's appearance as an extra, and how you can be the Pope that the world needs now
Ep 11: Singularity & Superheroes
Micah Redding
2015-10-07 19:16:00
01:47:50