Latest Transhuman Podcast Episodes

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DIANA and the New Golden Age

P.I.D. Radio - July 06, 2024 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
A SPIRITUALIST claims higher powers told her during a three-day out-of-body experience that a new Golden Age would begin between 2012 and 2032. 61-year-old Julie Poole of Cornwall in the UK says that back in 1984, she spent three days in the spirit realm and was told by angelic “guides” that a ...

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Biden's Political Career Ended Thursday Night

P.I.D. Radio - June 29, 2024 19:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
JOE BIDEN’S PERFORMANCE at Thursday’s televised debate was historic—but not in the way he wanted. His political career ended Thursday night. It was that bad. After five full days of rest and preparation, what we saw Thursday was the best the president could muster. By all accounts, which includ...

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Update Episode: The Global Cryonics Summit in Miami

Cryonics Underground - June 26, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
*(edit) We are officially sold out, but you can still add your email at the bottom of the website to get updates about future events.  In this quick update episode, Max and Daniel take a break from their usual guest format to update you on the Global Cryonics Summit in Miami this July 20th and...

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This is How Skynet Begins

P.I.D. Radio - June 15, 2024 16:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
A COUPLE OF STORIES this week about artificial intelligence point toward a future when AI literally controls the human race—a future that, sadly, many of our fellow humans would probably welcome. First, the US Air Force and Space Force announced an AI tool called NIPRGPT, a tortured acronym tha...

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Health Bureaucrats Want to Rule the World

P.I.D. Radio - June 01, 2024 16:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY is set to pass a package of amendments to the International Health Regulations that makes the World Health Organization, at least on paper, an unelected global government. Included in the 300+ amendments are changes to the IHR that vastly expands the power of the WHO t...

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Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection

Singularity.FM - May 26, 2024 18:30 ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
 Fifteen years ago, I penned the first versions of Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma and A Transhumanist Manifesto. Much has changed since then, including my perspective. I began with a question inspired by Hamlet: Will technology replace biology? At the time, I believed this to be the modern itera...

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Get Your Why before AI: Technology is The How, Not the Why or What

Singularity.FM - May 23, 2024 11:00 ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
 Technology is the new religion, Silicon Valley – the new Promised Land, and entrepreneurs – the new prophets. They promise a future of abundance and immortality—a techno-heaven beyond our wildest dreams. And we are all believers. We often forget technology is the how, not the why or what. It is...

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From Mutual Dependence to Obsolescence: The Future of Labor in an AI-Driven Economy

Singularity.FM - May 20, 2024 10:00 ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
 Throughout history, capital and labor have been interdependent forces driving economic growth. Capital relies on labor to generate returns on investment, while labor depends on capital for wages. Despite historical fluctuations in their balance of power, classical economics suggests a theoretic...

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Standing with Israel

P.I.D. Radio - May 18, 2024 15:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
WE’RE BACK from our one-week Solidarity Mission to Israel. This was easily the most emotionally charged visit of our four visits to the Holy Land. We share our experiences visiting with injured IDF soldiers, returned hostages freed by Hamas, and visits to communities in the Negev attacked by Ha...

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It's About Control

P.I.D. Radio - May 04, 2024 16:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
WHEN THE U.S. government does nearly anything with bipartisan support, you can bet there’s a deep state agenda behind the scenes. We discuss H.R. 6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 320–91. 21 Republicans voted against it, but 133 Democra...

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Party Like It's 1939

P.I.D. Radio - April 27, 2024 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
PRO-HAMAS PROTESTS on college campuses around the United States this week began to evoke images of 1930s Germany. Students forming a human chain to force Jewish students off the Columbia University campus was eerily reminiscent of Brownshirts blocking access by Jewish students to the University...

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"They Wouldn't Just Eat Any White Men That Fell From the Sky"

P.I.D. Radio - April 20, 2024 15:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THOSE IMMORTAL WORDS were spoken by Michael Kabuni, a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, responding to a false claim by President Biden that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals after being shot down in WWII. Biden told the story twice Wednesday, in Scranton and ...

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UFOs, Red Heifers, and Tucker Carlson

P.I.D. Radio - April 13, 2024 16:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE MOOD IN ISRAEL is tense this weekend, as intelligence sources say Iran is preparing an imminent attack to retaliate for the recent airstrike against Iran’s embassy in Damascus. Against this backdrop are Internet rumors about plans to sacrifice a red heifer to prepare for construction of the...

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Terror in Russia

P.I.D. Radio - March 23, 2024 17:42 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
A TERROR ATTACK at a rock concert in Moscow has left more than 140 people dead as of this recording. A branch of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deaths. The question is what happens next? It’s been reported that the terrorists were arrested as they tried to escape into Ukra...

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Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan

Singularity.FM - March 15, 2024 13:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
 I have now been vegan for almost 9 years and people keep asking me how I feel and why I did it. So let me share a quick health update as well as the original 6 reasons why I went vegan. Since going vegan I have lost and kept off 25 pounds or about […]

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John Smart - Alternative Methods of Brain Preservation

Cryonics Underground - March 11, 2024 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Important Note! Join your hosts Max and Daniel, plus luminaries from across the Cryonics industry, at the upcoming Global Cryonics Summit on July 20-21st in Miami, Florida. Go to globalcryonicssummit.com for early-bird tickets and more information. ----- In this episode, Max and Daniel are joi...

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State of the Octopus

P.I.D. Radio - March 09, 2024 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
A NEW DOCUSERIES on Netflix had us thinking that somebody had been listening to 15-year-old episodes of P.I.D. Radio. That’s not the case, of course. The Octopus Murders, a four-part series, is well researched and connected some dots that we hadn’t put together back in 2009. However, it was a b...

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It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics.

Singularity.FM - March 08, 2024 08:08 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
I have noticed that almost every startup in almost every industry is claiming “a revolutionary AI or blockchain breakthrough.” [Often both.] More recently I’m flabbergasted to see a similar fad in the growing number of self-proclaimed Tech and AI ethicists. We apparently have an exponential proli...

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Supernatural Gaslighting

P.I.D. Radio - March 02, 2024 19:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE CORPORATE MEDIA and its deep state masters want you to believe that reality is what they tell you, not what you see with your lying eyes. President Biden’s cognitive decline is apparent, but only a few in the media have dared break the wall of silence around that topic. This isn’t the first...

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Fellowship of the King

P.I.D. Radio - February 24, 2024 18:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE WORLD is a chaotic place: Wars, rumors of war, and a ruling class that is deliberately keeping the rest of us stirred up and angry at each other. Adding to the confusion was a major outage of AT&T’s cellphone network Thursday and a cyberattack on a major health tech company that took North ...

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Putin, Biden, and the Deep State

P.I.D. Radio - February 17, 2024 23:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
2024 IS BARELY six weeks old and it’s already proving to be one for the history books.  This week, Alexei Navalny, described as the leader of the political opposition to Vladimir Putin, suddenly died in prison. His death has been widely condemned in the West as another example of Putin’s barbar...

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Criminal or Just Feeble?

P.I.D. Radio - February 10, 2024 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
President Joe Biden will not be charged for mishandling top secret documents stored in his garage from his time as a U.S. senator and vice president. However, the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur may be even worse for Biden than prosecution. Hur’s report documents several instances of Biden...

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Biden Strikes Back

P.I.D. Radio - February 03, 2024 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE U.S. MILITARY reportedly bombed 85 sites overnight linked to Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. 34 militants were killed in the strikes carried out in retaliation for the attack on the US base in Jordan that left three American soldiers dead and another 40 injured. The attack reportedl...

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Divided We Stand

P.I.D. Radio - January 27, 2024 17:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT is in a legal standoff with the state of Texas over control of the border with Mexico. After Texas refused to comply with a Supreme Court ruling to allow Border Patrol agents to a park in Eagle Pass, the White House announced a freeze on the sale of liquefied natural gas, wh...

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Disease X

P.I.D. Radio - January 20, 2024 18:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
ONE OF THE ISSUES discussed by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week is preparing for “Disease X.” It’s important to remember that Disease X doesn’t exist. It’s a hypothetical pathogen that may someday pose a threat to humanity. It’s also important to note that the WEF, the W...

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The Miami Alien and Other Distractions

P.I.D. Radio - January 06, 2024 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
NEW YEAR’S DAY brought unexpected excitement to Miami: Dozens of police cruisers responded to a call of teens fighting and setting off fireworks at a mall. The incident has gone viral as a video on social media claims to show a 7-to-10 foot tall “alien” skulking near the police cars. As with an...

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TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A

Philosophical Disquisitions - December 20, 2023 10:58 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode, John and Sven answer questions from podcast listeners. Topics covered include: the relationships between animal ethics and AI ethics; religion and philosophy of tech; the analytic-continental divide; the debate about short vs long-term risks; getting engineers to take ethics se...

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TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures

Philosophical Disquisitions - December 20, 2023 10:53 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
What does the future hold for humanity's relationship with technology? Will we become ever more integrated with and dependent on technology? What are the normative and axiological consequences of this? In this episode, Sven and John discuss these questions and reflect, more generally, on techno...

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TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers

Philosophical Disquisitions - December 20, 2023 10:50 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode, Sven and John talk about relationships with machines. Can you collaborate with a machine? Can robots be friends, colleagues or, perhaps, even lovers? These are common tropes in science fiction and popular culture, but is there any credibility to them? What would the ethical sta...

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TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?

Philosophical Disquisitions - December 19, 2023 14:51 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode Sven and John discuss the moral status of machines, particularly humanoid robots. Could machines ever be more than mere things? Some people see this debate as a distraction from the important ethical questions pertaining to technology; others take it more seriously. Sven and Joh...