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Ep. 4028 Silicon Valley’s Biggest Lie About Technology Just Got EXPOSED!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley, join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, real quick, I've been teasing something big for weeks, and today I can finally say it out loud.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Coming to you from one of the most beautiful and bustling cities in the world, Budapest, Hungary, home to an equally extraordinary, cultural and national renewal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's renewal that is a lot to teach us when it comes to the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that's rising all around us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a story that Silicon Valley has been telling for about 30 years or so, and it goes something like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Technology is the new secular religion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The smartphone is the new altar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The algorithm is the new priest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The data centers the new cathedral.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And as people become more connected, more digitally integrated, more reliant on their devices, then they're going to naturally
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  [SPEAKER_00]: spirituality of human progress and technological transcendence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a compelling story, stole by intelligent people and it would be very persuasive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If it weren't for the fact that it's almost entirely wrong in every single way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not because technology isn't powerful, pervasive, it's more prevalent in our society than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The problem is that Silicon Valley, that's story, gets the relationship between technology and religion exactly backwards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Simply put, technology is not replacing religion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Quite the opposite around the world and the civilizations that matter most in the 21st century, technology is actually serving religion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's being consciously shaped directed and deployed as an expression of theological belief.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you miss that, if you keep assuming that tech and theology are in a collision course, where tech inevitably wins, you're going to fundamentally misunderstand the most powerful dynamics.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of our era.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you the clearest example, first, and then we'll get deeper.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When the Iranian government built its national intranet, a filtered, surveilled, domestically controlled version of the internet, Western analysts called it censorship.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, technically of course it was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that framing entirely missed the point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Iranian theocracy was not simply trying to prevent its citizens from seeing inconvenient news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was trying to build a digital infrastructure that expressed sheer Islamic values.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was constructing a cyberspace shaped by a theological vision of what information should flow, what ideas should propagate, and what kind of human being should emerge from the experience of being connected.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not censorship at the Western liberal sense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's Theo technology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Technology built to serve theological ends in Iran is not alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: China's digital infrastructure is built to serve the political theology of civilization, supremacy, and confusion, social harmony.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Russia's digital strategies inseparable from its orthodox civilizational product.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Saudi Arabia's vision 2030 is deploying AI and smart city technology explicitly in the service of a reform but still deeply Islamic social vision.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even in the west, though if you want to say it plainly, the platforms that dominate digital life reflect specific theological assumptions about
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is no theologically neutral technology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There never was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take for example the specific case of AI, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Artificial intelligence, because this is where the stakes are highest, and the illusion neutrality is most dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The dominant assumption in Western tech culture is that AI is a tool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A powerful tool for sure, but even a potentially dangerous tool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But ultimately, a neutral instrument that can be pointed in any direction and will produce objective outputs regardless of who's doing the inputting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That assumption is collapsing in real time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: AI systems are trained on data that reflects the values of the civilization that produce the data.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're shaped by the choices of engineers who've been formed by specific cultural and theological traditions, even if those traditions are the secular liberalism that doesn't recognize itself as a theological tradition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The guard rails, the content policies, the safety felt of the earth, the alignment objective, all of these are expressions of a moral vision.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that moral vision is not universal, it's civilizational.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why the AI and her national competition is being called a new arms race.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The civilization that dominates AI will dominate the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This means that the AI race is not merely a technological competition, it's a civilizational one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The question of which civilizations AI becomes dominant is the question of which civilizations theology, which set of assumptions about the good, the true and the human gets encoded into the digital substrate of the future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the opolitics applied to technology or what the Civ Cosm paradigm calls techno politics.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In our world today, the ancient and the algorithmic are converging, not diverging.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and the civilizations that understand this are the ones that will shape what comes next.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Look at how the most dynamically religious civilizations on earth are approaching technology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Islamic world, the Hindu world, the Shinto world, and yes, the Christian world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not rejecting technology, they're not intimidated by it, they're not waiting for secular experts to tell them what it means.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're adopting it aggressively, they're adopting it intentionally, and directing it toward their own civilizational ends with a clarity of purpose that post-religious Western technocrats simply can't match.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you have a theological vision of where history is going, when you believe that your civilization carries a divine mandate, you deploy technology differently than when you're simply trying to maximize shareholder value or win accordingly earning cycle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are playing a longer game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're building toward a different tell-offs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that purposefulness is an enormous, competitive advantage in a world increasingly characterized by civilizational competition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the Civ Cosms' second coordinate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Techno-politips, the study of how technological development is increasingly shaped by the civilizational values of the people who built it, and how the competition
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for technological dominance in the 24th century is inseparable from the competition between sacred civilizational visions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Understanding this changes everything about how you read the A.I.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: rays, the semi-conductor war, the competition over 5G infrastructure, the battle over digital currencies, and the race to dominate space-based communication networks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: None of it is neutral, all of it is theological.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every bit of it is civilizational.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The people who understand that stop-seeing technology is a secular force dissolving religion and start seeing it as a civilizational tool serving sacred belief are the people who will understand what the next 50 years actually look like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what Civ Cosmys built to show you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The question is never whether technology will suppress religion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The question is always which religion does technology ultimately serve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is what SIV calls them, answers.
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