The Religious Foundations of Transhumanism w/ Meghan O’Gieblyn

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Meghan O’Gieblyn to discuss parallels between transhumanism and Christian narratives of resurrection, despite the fact many transhumanists identify as staunch atheists. Meghan O’Gieblyn is an advice columnist at Wired and the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon. The podc...

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0:00.0	To a certain extent, I think the whole rhetoric about AI rests on faith, right?
0:05.8	On this idea of like, just trust us.
0:07.5	We're the smartest guys in the room.
0:09.4	We're going to do this.
0:10.4	We're going to deliver.
0:11.7	And like, what are you going to deliver?
0:13.9	Nobody can even articulate what it is that we're trying to solve.
0:33.8	Yeah. solve. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us made in partnership with The Nation magazine.
0:37.7	I'm your host, Paris Marks, and before we get into this week's episode, just a reminder that we are in the final stretch of our membership drive for the fourth birthday of the podcast, which, of course, we celebrate this month.
0:48.0	Our goal is 200 new or upgraded supporters so that we can make a special series digging into the AI hype of the past year or so,
0:55.6	the data centers that are required to power all of these AI tools, and the growing backlash
1:00.7	to them that is happening around the world due to water use, energy use, questions of control.
1:07.0	And that gets to the bigger question of whether we even need this much computing power in the first place in order to build a better world for all of us instead of just padding the corporate profits of these major tech companies.
1:19.2	We're still a ways from our goal right now. So anyone who signs up can, of course, help us hit it and help us to make the series.
1:25.4	If you do decide to do that, you'll get some stickers in the
1:27.5	mail, a shout out, some occasional premium episodes that we put together, including a bunch based on
1:32.6	last year's special series that we did on Elon Musk called Elon Musk Unmast. And of course, it just helps
1:39.0	us to keep making the show, to keep it sustainable. So if you do enjoy the interviews that we do on Tech
1:44.7	Won't Save Us, the critical perspectives that we provide you, make sure to go to patreon.com
1:49.1	slash Tech Won't Save Us, where you can help us hit our goal. Now, this week's episode is with
1:52.8	Megan O'Giblin. Megan is an advice columnist at Wired and the author of God, Human, Animal,
1:57.7	machine. I came across Megan's work when I've read an essay that she wrote a number of
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