The plummeting cost of cotton or electricity changed the world. What would a plummeting cost of intelligence do to our sense of normality? What happens when we can turn on superintelligence for roughly the same cost that we can turn on a light?
The account attached to the cutesy red Muppet asked on Monday: “How is everybody doing?” What was striking was how bleak many of the replies were.
The Christianised worldview viewed nature as having intrinsic worth and meaning given to it by its Creator. This has now been increasingly displace by a ‘disenchanted’ worldview, where the universe has no intrinsic value, and we are free to manipulate it as we see fit.
I kindly ask that the NSW Government commits again to: safeguard religious freedom and parental rights, allow for consensual conversations and prayer and focus on banning genuinely coercive and harmful practices only.
Just for a moment we can again imagine the vault of the heaven ringing with joyful song—even though there is really no song and no story. But the ancients had a view that actually justified that imagination—no matter what their scientific errors. They knew what [we] want to be true. Though knowing less, they knew much more.
