Humanize _{From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism}

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Humanize podcast

river diversion dam - aerial view

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Human Flourishing
Nature and Conservation
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, Billy Giblin, Colorado, conservation, dam, environmental law, Gary Wockner, human thriving, Humanize podcast, national review, nature rights movement, Nederlands, rights of nature, rivers, Save the Colorado, Save the World's Rivers, Thomas Alan Linzey, Tom Linzey, watersheds, Wesley J. Smith}

Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

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May 9, 2024

Human Flourishing, Nature and Conservation

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The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2024

Tagged
, AI, Army Research Lab, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Boeing, Discovery Institute, engineering, futurist, Huffington Post, Humanize podcast, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Minding the Brain, Motherboard, NASA, National Geographic, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, Newsweek, Non-Computable You, Office of Naval Research, Robert J. Marks II, TechCrunch, The Transhumanist Wager, Transhuman Citizen, Transhumanism, Transhumanist Party, Vice, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Zoltan Istvan}

Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan on the Promise — or Threat — of Artificial Intelligence

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May 6, 2024

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In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on AI — artificial intelligence. Are we on the verge of an era if incalculable human progress because of the power of AI? Or are we threatened with being made obsolete and perhaps extinguished in an age of intelligent machines? Or, perhaps, a combination of both? The program features two experts who have Read More ›