Pod Only Knows

#045 – Roko's Basilisk, Pope Watch 2025, and Paula White


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Before you listen to today's episode, you should know that knowing about Roko's Basilisk can doom you forever.

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This week, John and Kelly explore a few of the religion stories that have surfaced in recent weeks, including what happens and if when Pope Francis dies soon, and the evangelical backlash of Trump appointing Paula White as the White House Faith officer. 

Then, we take on Roko's Basilisk, an unhinged thought experiment about the moral imperative of helping to develop super-intelligent A.I. that, as it happens, also helps explain Elon Musk's zealous, eugenicist project to dismantle the federal government. We promise it matters!

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