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#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

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We Can Use Technology, but That's Not a Correct Way to Put It

There was a sense that humans are facing existential risks, that it's not obvious that we will survive for long. I tend to believe that the happiness and deep fulfillment in life is found in that emotional place. And there it pays off to be optimistic, I think. You said that technology might be able to save us. Yeah, that's also kind of optimistic too. It might kill us. So we can use technology or the thing is that we say we use technology, but actually that's not a correct way of putting it in my opinion.

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