109: The Hermit vs. The Machine: St. Antony and AI (with C.R. Wiley)

In this episode we talk to CR Wiley about his upcoming book "St. Antony's Guide to Your Best Life Now," which looks at the life of St. Antony the desert father as a way for Christians to be faithful in a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence.Bio: C. R. Wiley is a minister living in the Pacific Northwest. He has written for Touchstone Magazine, Modern Reformation, Sacred Architecture, The Imaginative Conservative, Front Porch Republic, Scenes Media, and National Review. His short fiction has appeared in The Mythic Circle (published by the Mythopoeic Society) and elsewhere, and he has published young adult fiction. He has been a commercial real estate investor, a building contractor, and a college professor. He is a member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.Books by CR Wiley:In the House of Tom Bombadil:https://www.amazon.com/House-Tom-Bombadil-C-R-Wiley-ebook/dp/B09LSCR7LT/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Fuiqf&content-id=amzn1.sym.e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_p=e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_r=144-9031752-5433267&pd_rd_wg=lWf2l&pd_rd_r=c6d6bc76-965b-46dc-99c0-edcca2350c42&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dskThe Household and the War for the Cosmos:https://www.amazon.com/Household-War-Cosmos-Recovering-Christian-ebook/dp/B07SZB38CY/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=2Hdcy&content-id=amzn1.sym.e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_p=e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_r=144-9031752-5433267&pd_rd_wg=rruek&pd_rd_r=eb1cf2da-c2ce-485f-99c8-20ec07f3a933&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk#AI #Christianity #paganism #materialism #technology #transhumanism #kurzweil #harariChapters:00:00:00-Intro00:05:20-Kurzweil’s Vision of Transhumanism and AI Totalitarianism00:11:07-The AI Threat to Religious Freedom00:19:28-The All-Encompassing Power of AI00:27:09-How Technology Debilitates Our Creative Powers00:34:55-Is There an Upside to AI?00:36:57-Who are the Conditioners?00:40:21-St. Antony vs. AI?00:45:46-AI and the Aesthetic World00:54:48-Why We Can’t Ignore the Threat of AI01:05:31-AI Demonic?01:08:32-Living Faithfully in the AI World01:13:34-Outro

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