My dialog with ChatGPT-4 demonstrated a capacity for deep and substantive conversation. It’s not “fooling us.”
We’ve all lost people. To death. To addiction. To fascist beliefs. We’ve all lost dreams of one sort or another. No one’s life turns out exactly the way they want it to.
Intelligent machines are beginning to impinge on the exclusive franchise of human meaning, by stealing some of our thunder in language and the arts.
“Keep right except to pass,” is not as simple as it might seem.
We are made of stardust, yet we are mortal. How do we reconcile our own mortality with a near-eternal universe?
Display of the cross in the United States is plausibly-deniable patriarchy and white privilege hiding in plain sight.
“Free speech absolutism” is a nightmare authoritarian concept that grants more power to the powerful, while weakening marginalized groups.
Achhoooo!! What Do You Say In A Social Setting?
How did religion come to be opposed to universal civil rights?
Even though we called ourselves The Radical Secular, the tone was not nearly radical enough for me. I can’t stomach pulling any punches about religion or spirituality.
I just watched a really good TED talk from 2017 by Anil Seth about the nature of consciousness. He gets one important thing wrong.
September 11 was only the opening act. 21 years later we still are asleep to the threat posed by the false beliefs of religion, to freedom and …
No one knows anything about any god-being. Many pretend to know things they don’t know, and are lying to themselves and their followers.
Christophe, Liz and Sean react to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Gun policy. Juneteenth. The consequences of ideological purity.
A deep-dive explainer on America’s gun-violence epidemic. How it’s tied to our history of racism, the Civil War, colonialism and the genocide of indigenous Americans.
The Buffalo Massacre, and the psychological toll on people of color. Long-term impact of women being 2nd-class citizens. Progressive introspection.
The loss of Roe v. Wade. Climate. Energy. Guest Kevin Bolling on the war on secular education, and its impact on kids’ health, especially girls.
Drug policy, harm reduction. What does a healthy relationship with drugs and alcohol look like? Problems with 12-step recovery groups like AA.
We explore all forms of oppression of the human body. The emancipatory and reactionary components of modernism and postmodernism. Surveillance, prisons, and post-truth.
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