

Philosophers In Space
Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright
Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.
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Dec 30, 2020 • 54min
0G129: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethically Raised AI Part 1
Welcome to the Bobnet, your one stop shop for all things bobiverse related. Here you'll find access to the latest in bobiverse content at faster than light speed. We've got the origin story of Bob-1 and the salvation of Earth from getting a wicked Brazilian. We've got a deep dive into the ethics of raising a replicant and next week we'll be discussing releasing it out into the universe. Enjoy the VR buffet! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: We Are Legion We Are Bob and the Ethics of Von Neumann probes Part 2

Dec 23, 2020 • 59min
0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory Logic
There's no time to actually explain, so pretend all this information is being stabbed into your face brain. We're covering the cult classic Dark City and discussing why it contains not just all past and future sci fi but also every conspiracy theory ever. To help us squeeze all that madness into your brain we've brought in the expert, Michael Marshall (@MrMMarsh). Enjoy your fake memories! Merseyside Skeptics: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: We Are Legion We Are Bob and Ethical AI Replicants

Dec 16, 2020 • 56min
0G127: Anathem and Foucault, Part 4
Just when you thought we were done with Anathem, get ready for some shameless fanservice/host indulgence. Really though, adding this to our earlier coverage of Anathem feels like the completing of a personal project of worth. Hope it does something for anyone else too! Read Beyond Critique's chapter on Foucault Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

Dec 9, 2020 • 58min
0G126: Parable of the Talents and Positive Obsession, Part 3
And so we reach another end, which is really just one kind of change. Hopefully some of you will find some value in our analysis of the Book of the Living and these ideas of positive obsession and kindness through change. The Book of the Living: godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ Process Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ Process Theology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-theism/ Octavia in 2020: https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/octavia-butler-parable-of-the-sower-talents-pandemic.html?fbclid=IwAR2JHmLA1VTr_shzF_PmTF3UALe510V-RBzyT6UxeL5cof1mvR5n4BPUpGI Octavia Tried to Tell Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyLsqaFjl44&list=PLQ3e5menKWfc05UfwQOvtTG-qPwzOMJBx Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Anathem and Foucault, Part 4

Dec 2, 2020 • 57min
Listener Qs 18
Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Listener Qs 18

Nov 25, 2020 • 47min
Listener Qs 17
Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Listener Qs 18

Nov 18, 2020 • 54min
0G125: Parable of the Talents and Process Philosophy/Theology, Part 2
God, and I cannot stress this enough, is Change. Shape, please please please shape God. In honor of Butler's original artistic vision, this material will be forever attached to the 2020 presidential election. We'll try to talk about process philosophy and process theology as well, but I hope we all get what this about. Good luck out there. Stay safe and sane. Process Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ Process Theology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-theism/ Octavia in 2020: https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/octavia-butler-parable-of-the-sower-talents-pandemic.html?fbclid=IwAR2JHmLA1VTr_shzF_PmTF3UALe510V-RBzyT6UxeL5cof1mvR5n4BPUpGI Octavia Tried to Tell Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyLsqaFjl44&list=PLQ3e5menKWfc05UfwQOvtTG-qPwzOMJBx Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Parable of the Talents and Aspirational Acceptance, Part 3

Nov 11, 2020 • 59min
0G124: Parable of the Talents and Critical Race Theory, Part 1
Election season is upon us! Will we end up with the needlessly rapey "Make America Great Again" demagogue? How many people of color will experience some form of genocide? Will the Pox ever end? While we wait to see, we start our coverage with the background from Parable of the Sower, the first book in the series that is recapped at the start of Parable of the Talents. We provide a crash course on Critical Race Theory, which we'll unpack further over the next few episodes alongside the other philosophy. Keep breathing, we'll get through this. Octavia in 2020: https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/octavia-butler-parable-of-the-sower-talents-pandemic.html?fbclid=IwAR2JHmLA1VTr_shzF_PmTF3UALe510V-RBzyT6UxeL5cof1mvR5n4BPUpGI Octavia Tried to Tell Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyLsqaFjl44&list=PLQ3e5menKWfc05UfwQOvtTG-qPwzOMJBx Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104 CONTENT PREVIEW: Parable of the Talents and Process Philosophy/Theology, Part 2

Nov 4, 2020 • 59min
0G123: Dr. Who and the Daleks and Pacifism
WE ARE THE PODLEKS. WE WILL TURN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INTO PODCAST. IF YOU ARE A PACIFIST WE WILL MAKE YOU A PODCAST. PODCASTINATE! PODCASTINATE! PODCASTINATE The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43280797.pdf Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: James had me on Ethics and Chill to discuss how algorithms are a key player in this C+ dystopia we're stuck in. https://ethicsandchill.org/2020/09/11/episode-24/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Parable of the Talents and Critical Race Theory

Oct 28, 2020 • 54min
0G122: Robocop and AI Police
Finally, a break from all the depressing social commentary for a lighthearted 80's romp through scenic Detroit. This movie has so much 80's it's legally the equivalent of doing coke off a sex worker. We discuss the less heavily covered topic of replacing police offices with robots, and do our best to try to pretend like this isn't a solved question. Don't forget to start reading Parable of the Talents for election coverage 2020! AI policing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5898/JHRI.5.3.Asaro?casa_token=5cpHKxloe-8AAAAA%3A-fY9ts3guSkc8jv2jpMw4FWLlc6WqeZ0ncZEY7h1fBd4jGPZ6Y55UOlm2bU11JVr3sLZbxJvJHp_ZJ0 Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: James had me on Ethics and Chill to discuss how algorithms are a key player in this C+ dystopia we're stuck in. https://ethicsandchill.org/2020/09/11/episode-24/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Dr. Who and the Daleks and Radical Pacifism


