Listen live Fridays noon to 2pm Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at KevinBarrett.Substack.com In the wake of CEO-slayer Luigi Mangione becoming a folk hero, an anti-genocide fighter getting arrested for targeting genocide perpetrators, and less-defensible non-state-sponsored violence reaching epidemic proportions in the USA, it’s a good time to talk about the minuscule fraction of human violence that isn’t perpetrated by governments. First…
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Matt Ehret Counters David Skrbina on “Artificial Idiocy,” Lovesick Chatbot Stalkers, and the Metaphysics of Technology
Listen HERE Matt Ehret counters David Skrbina’s radical critique of technology with a much more optimistic assessment. He argues that the problem isn’t technology itself, but the oligarchs who dominate it. Check out his article on Yuval Harari and the clash of technological paradigms, and on the deep green resistance ecoterrorists. Matt Ehret founded Canadian Patriot and writes for Strategic…
Read MoreDavid Skrbina on “Artificial Idiocy,” Lovesick Chatbot Stalkers, and the Metaphysics of Technology
Listen HERE 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, author of The…
Read MoreLIVE RADIO! David Skrbina and Matt Ehret on “Artificial Idiocy,” Lovesick Chatbot Stalkers, and the Metaphysics of Technology
Listen live Fridays 8 to 10 Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at https://kevinbarrett.substack.com 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…
Read MorePhilosopher David Skrbina on Coronavirus and Technology
Listen HERE Philosopher 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 in an urban,…
Read MoreDavid Skrbina on “Technological Slavery” and panpsychism
Listen HERE Philosophy 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 have consciousness, does that mean…
Read MoreDavid Skrbina debates “Jesus Hoax”; Ed Corrigan on crimes of imperialism and Zionism, including the 9/11 false flag
Broadcast live Friday Feb. 16, 8 to 10 pm Eastern at Revolution.Radio then archived HERE First 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…
Read MoreDavid Skrbina on “the Jesus Hoax”
Listen 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 a book entitled The Jesus…
Read MoreSkrbina interview pt. 2: Towards a sense of the sacred
Broadcast February 25th, 10-11:00 a.m. Central (1500 GMT) on NoLiesRadio.org.For only $3.95 a month you can listen to shows on-demand before they are broadcast – and also get free downloads and other perks from Kevin! If you are a subscriber, just log in to the members area of TruthJihad.com and go to the “Private Blog” to get early access to the shows. Non-subscribers only…
Read MoreU. of Michigan prof David Skrbina, renowned scientist AK Dewdney
Fri. 10/19/12, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) 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…
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