This talk is an outro to my last four years of work and a segue into the next phase. It’s been a great run, but very soon, it’ll be time to shift gears.

This First Baptist Church event was great. What a great crowd! But alas, the Machine hath cursed me yet again (or at least, my own technical blunders did).The video is completely out of focus. Damnit! I reckon I should be grateful the audio came out alright.In any event, here is my talk with the slides overlayed—a little PowerPoint hoodoo voodoo schmoodoo—so it’s not a total wash.

I’ve never been one to read from notes onstage, so this is pretty much off the top of my head.

I hope you enjoy!

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Dear Singularity Weekly Readers,

Very sorry for the delay and for the truncated podcast. I just got my Substack subscriptions fixed by a human. If it went well, you should all receive this email.For those thousands of you who were not getting the Omega Point Podcast and missed it—please, begin with Episode 0 here and keep going!You can tell it took me a a few shows to get the hang of it. But I’m almost there!

Also, I will be traveling next week. So I must prepare.If you are in the Dallas area next week, I’ll be speaking at First Baptist Church downtown:

Cyborg Theocracy — The Rise of Digital Deities

Sunday, September 29 — 5:30 pm

First Baptist Church1707 San Jacinto St.Dallas, TX 75201

C’mon down!

As for above Omega Point interlude, a friend sent me a new podcast that breaks down my latest article Killswitch Engaged. I urge you to listen to at least a few minutes of their take.

My concluding commentary is only matched by the outro track (a personal favorite).

To all the newcomers, welcome aboard this rudderless ship! For your convenience, I’ve included my first ten episodes below.

(Also, regarding my upcoming nanotech article—look for it on Monday, September 30. Gonna be a banger.)

Godspeed and God bless!

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If you believe in every conspiracy, you’re delusional.

If you ignore all conspiracies, you’re prey.

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In lieu of my usual intimate podcast, I present to you my rant in New York City about the decline of human dignity and the rise of cyborg theocracy. This talk was delivered off the cuff, but with more love and affection than a puppy dog playing with his new robot chew toy. I hope you enjoy it.

Full video here

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The prospect of digital gods is chilling. Personally, I am agnostic toward the idea.

Maybe the Super Computer Gods are on their way. Or maybe it’s just a poorly thought out sales pitch, like supernatural vaporware.

God only knows. What I do know is that new technoreligions are arising. As with the rise of any new religion, they will have profound impacts on the real world.

I caution you not to drink the Kool-Aid. Which is another way of saying, don’t take the iTrode.

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And never trust a witch.

Our freedom in this life is limited.

Embrace it where you can, when you can.

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In this episode, we’ll explore biodigital convergence and human evolution. Historically, we viewed ourselves as families, tribes, nations, and civilizations. None of that has changed on an instinctual level—not yet, anyway—but now there is a layer of digital culture laid on top of it all.This digital layer is absorbing our biological forms. Our devices monitor us, manipulate us, and ultimately move us toward some sort of metamorphosis. To what extent our legacy forms will survive this great transformation is yet to be seen.

Perhaps humans will be left behind like a chrysalis when the artificial butterfly flies away. Or maybe our souls will be painted on its wings.Or maybe we’ll stand back and watch a deformed biomechanical moth—a horrible mutant created by mad scientists—fly off into the sun and be burned to cinders.One can always dream. I know I do.

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Race is a social construct, as are rivers and mountains. There is the actual thing—there are the borders dividing that thing from other things—and then there are ideas about the thing and its proper borders.

The river stops here, the sea begins there. The foothills end here, the mountain begins there.It’s important to have honest conversations about race. But probably not too honest, or else the people who feed on lies will have something nasty to say about you.In any case, this is a preliminary meditation on race that I will continue to its final conclusion next week. I hope you enjoy it, and if you are offended—well, you obviously don’t get out much.One World. One Tribe. One Love.One Blood.

Mostly.

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On a country road to the big city. The views are gorgeous, but the sky looks dark up ahead.

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Nothing captures our current state of postreality like Philip K. Dick, the Wakowski Siblings, and the inimitable Francis E. Dec with his screed “Master Race Frankenstein Radio Controls.”

The only thing more horrifying than finding out the entire cosmos is fake is to realize the false reality is all in your head.

You can hear Dec’s uncensored, ethnopsychotic meditation on race, robots, and religion here. (NSFW)

Stay sane, fellow hominids.

And remember the Ultimate Red Pill — the online Right’s most potent metaphor was invented by two transexual technognostics.

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