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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:06.1 | In this series, we have revealed the latter-day prophet who has inspired a modern movement |
0:11.4 | for immortality in Silicon Valley, a philosopher named Nick Bostrom, author of The Fable of |
0:17.8 | the Dragon Tyrant, who believes that in order to live forever, we have to merge with technology, |
0:25.1 | become, as he describes it, post-human. |
0:30.1 | And this is not just for our benefit right now, but for the future of humanity to save |
0:36.4 | ourselves and the generations that follow us. |
0:40.9 | The post-human moment heralds a new dawn, a time when artificial intelligence will |
0:47.1 | either lead us to utopia and we will become immortal or it will completely annihilate |
0:54.6 | us. |
0:56.7 | This is the moment when the entire future of humanity is decided. |
1:00.0 | Dr. Emil P. Torres is a prominent technology philosopher. |
1:04.2 | Emil uses they-them pronouns, and they also were once an evangelical question. |
1:10.2 | I grew up in a very religious community. |
1:12.9 | In particular, there was a very strong focus on the future of us as individuals and the |
1:19.4 | future of the cosmos as a whole. |
1:22.3 | Their Baptist evangelical community in the US preached something called the rapture, |
1:27.8 | the second coming, or judgment day, the time when humankind will be brought before God. |
1:33.7 | Armageddon was right around the corner as far as I was concerned as a young person. |
1:40.8 | So quite terrifying. |
1:42.5 | Once they grew up, they began to question their faith and ultimately left the community, |
1:47.2 | which was home. |
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