How can we be better, together?

How can we be better, together?

It comes as no surprise that Religions and various forms of spiritualism contemplate big questions - whether you find value in the answers they provide or not.

The ordained Humanist rabbi Greg Epstein was a guest on the Your Undivided attention podcast - episode 100: The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics

Well worth a listen for a non-technical exploration of our relationship with technology, and how that will expand and change as AI continues to grow more influential in our lives. Towards the end of the podcast Greg Epstein observes:

We have tremendous incentive to want to focus on big technological solutions when in fact the real solutions are improving our human relationships to build up trust, to learn how to treat one another better, to learn how to organize ourselves into something that can treat each person with dignity and with compassion.

One of the hosts, Daniel Barcay, summarises this as:

How can we be better, together?

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