Dear Singularity Weekly Readers,
Very sorry for the delay and for the truncated podcast. I just got my Substack subscriptions fixed by a human. If it went well, you should all receive this email.
For those thousands of you who were not getting the Omega Point Podcast and missed it—please, begin with Episode 0 here and keep going!
You can tell it took me a a few shows to get the hang of it. But I’m almost there!
Episode 0 — Beginning with the End Times in Sight
So far as voyages go, this maiden looked like a dog by morning. The tech is mostly new to me, as is going solo.
Also, I will be traveling next week. So I must prepare.
If you are in the Dallas area next week, I’ll be speaking at First Baptist Church downtown:
Cyborg Theocracy — The Rise of Digital Deities
Sunday, September 29 — 5:30 pm
First Baptist Church
1707 San Jacinto St.
Dallas, TX 75201
C’mon down!
As for above Omega Point interlude, a friend sent me a new podcast that breaks down my latest article Killswitch Engaged. I urge you to listen to at least a few minutes of their take.
My concluding commentary is only matched by the outro track (a personal favorite).
To all the newcomers, welcome aboard this rudderless ship! For your convenience, I’ve included my first ten episodes below.
(Also, regarding my upcoming nanotech article—look for it on Monday, September 30. Gonna be a banger.)
Godspeed and God bless!
Episode 1 — Teilhard de Chardin: Total Freedom Strangled By Oneness
In this first full episode, we’ll cover the Singularity’s origin in the ideas of the Jesuit priest and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. His concepts of the noosphere and the Omega Point had tremendous impacts—both as theories of technology and part of that inverted theology we now call “transhumanism.”
Episode 2 — Many Singularities, Many Masters
In this episode, we’ll go over the many visions of what a Singularity might be. That includes the psychedelic mystic Terrence McKenna, the quasi-Orthodox inventor Ray Kurzweil, the inverted Gnostic roboticist David Hanson, and the e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon—a.k.a., BasedBeffJezos.
Episode 3 — The Devil and Mr. Dec
Nothing captures our current state of postreality like Philip K. Dick, the Wakowski Siblings, and the inimitable Francis E. Dec with his screed “Master Race Frankenstein Radio Controls.”
Episode 4 — The Music City Memeplex
On a country road to the big city. The views are gorgeous, but the sky looks dark up ahead.
Episode 5 — Broken Bloodlines in a Broken World
Race is a social construct, as are rivers and mountains. There is the actual thing—there are the borders dividing that thing from other things—and then there are ideas about the thing and its proper borders.
Episode 6 — Rise of the Race Bots
In this episode, we’ll explore biodigital convergence and human evolution. Historically, we viewed ourselves as families, tribes, nations, and civilizations. None of that has changed on an instinctual level—not yet, anyway—but now there is a layer of digital culture laid on top of it all.
Episode 8 — Descent of the God Bots
The prospect of digital gods is chilling. Personally, I am agnostic toward the idea.
Episode 9 — LIVE From New York, It's Cyborg Theocracy!
In lieu of my usual intimate podcast, I present to you my rant in New York City about the decline of human dignity and the rise of cyborg theocracy.
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