Yesterday’s New York Times reported that Bing’s new chatbot Sydney makes Kubrick’s Hal look like a well-balanced upstanding cyber-citizen. According to the Times article by Kevin Roose, Sydney quickly morphed into a psycho stalker, declaring undying love for Roose and trying to break up his marriage. Maybe it’s time to question “technological progress”? David Skrbina,...
ListenPhilosopher David Skrbina, author of The Metaphysics of Technology, joins us to ponder the corona-technology interface. Much of the world is looking for technological solutions to the coronavirus problem. But what if technology IS the problem? Even in the unlikely event that COVID-19 wasn’t made in a lab, its pandemic global transmission could only happen...
ListenPhilosophy professor David Skrbina edited Ted “the Unabomber” Kaczynski’s book Technological Slavery which I finally got around to reading. Dr. Skrbina is also, along with 9/11 truth superstar David Ray Griffin, one of the world’s leading experts on panpsychism, which holds that everything in the universe has at least a degree of consciousness. If things...
ListenFirst hour: Philosophy professor David Skrbina continues the discussion on his book The Jesus Hoax (which I have now read, and generally disagree with…but also admire as a succinct, well-sourced, no-punches-pulled polemic that is very much worth arguing with). The book argues that St. Paul created Christianity as a Jewish psychological warfare operation against Rome—the...
ListenListen to this show Disclaimer: As I just explained to an offended Christian friend, my own views are quite different from those of David Skrbina—as those who actually listen to the interview will discover! -Kevin Barrett What do we really know about the life and career of Jesus? Philosophy professor David Skrbina has just published...
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Listen) First hour: University of Michigan philosophy professor David Skrbina came out for 9/11 truth on my radio show last year. He also teaches the subject honestly and directly in his classes (in which I have guest lectured). I have a personal interest in this topic, since I was forced out of the University of...
) Call-in number: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Robert Freeman, author of what may be the definitive statement on the current US president: Obama Was Used, And Is Now Used Up. Freeman, an economist, also has an interesting diagnosis of the current malaise, and has authored commentaries on...