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A Christian view of ethics and technology - or, how we think about everything from Uber and Facebook to dealing with poverty.

Show Notes

We talk about out explicitly Christian ethics - including our ethics of technology. How do we reason about technologies as individuals and communities? What is human flourishing?

Links

Our previous discussion of self-driving cars (and note the title we picked two and a half years ago): 3.13: Inevitable

Articles on the self-driving car crash:

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• \\u201cA self-driving Uber car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona\\u201d
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• \\u201cUber \\u2018likely\\u2019 not at fault in deadly self-driving car crash, police chief says\\u201d (The Verge)
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• \\u201cCan You Sue a Robot?\\u201d, Ian Bogost/The Atlantic - a fairly thoughtful argument\\u2026 which nonetheless ends up with some sweeping judgments of just the sort that we\\u2019re not sure are warranted in this specific case.
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• John Gruber representing the \\u201cjust get us to the future; it\\u2019s worth the cost\\u201d side of things -
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Mentioned on the show:

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  • Specifically referenced: Kant\\u2019s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (wikipedia article)
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• \\u201cAll the Poor and Powerless\\u201d, by Shane and Shane

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• L. M. Sacasas with some important reservations about Heidegger - reservations we share about a man who, whatever his influence, seems to have been a Nazi sympathizer.

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• Mal\\u2019s speech in Serenity:

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  A year from now, ten, they\\u2019ll swing back to the belief that they can make people\\u2026 better. And I do not hold to that.

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Music

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• \\u201cTrue Refuge\\u201d, by Ezra Feinberg. Used by permission.
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• \\u201cWinning Slowly Theme\\u201d by Chris Krycho.
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Sponsors

Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month\\u2019s sponsors:

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• Andrew Fallows
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• Kurt Klassen
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• Jake Grant
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• Jeremy W. Sherman
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