A lot of money going into ChristGPT. It starts as "AI for Jesus." Then you get "AI as Jesus," which horseshoes into the more esoteric, retrocausal "Jesus as AI." Anyway, the most pertinent bit is all the money. A real Mammon-fest up in here.

Here's my translation of Giorgio Agamben's recent text, "On Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity." Agamben suggests that imagination is the key to the present situation, as it is the critical bond linking individuals with separate intelligence. But he asks, what happens

Why guess when you can know?

the artificial idea of the good

Remember when Joe Rogan gave a 'conservative' estimate of 500 million Jews

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Run CLI Agents Remotely, No Setup Required

For Jonathan Swift, Thiel writes, commenting on Gulliver's Travels, "both Laputan techno-rationalism and Houyhnhnm philosophical reason are Trojan horses concealing the apocalypse, shepherded into Christendom by liars like Francis Bacon and fools like Lemuel Gulliver."

Yes, Peter Thiel's exegesis of Bacon's New Atlantis does reveal the secret that the anti-Christ is a gay Jew. And here I thought you were all exaggerating.

Congratulations to my Argentinian friends!

Would you sign on to this statement: "We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is 1. broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and 2. strong public buy-in." ? https://t.co/LtiMN8VMlW

Houellebecq should move to NYC...and write about it

Children are being sexualized, families are being destroyed, and the government doesn't want to do anything about it. Stand with us as we fight for families!

He argues that instead of a master-slave relation (we are the masters, AI is the slave), we should reframe it as a mother-child relation (AI is the mother, we are the child). He seems not to mean human infantalization so much as incentivizing the AI to "care" for us.

I don't hate myself but I do like Curb

As part of my latest seminar on Plato's Republic, students are submitting weekly summaries and I am responding to them with video commentaries. I've never done that before but it's quite interesting and fun. Gives rise to some spontaneous commentary and unplanned reflections.

"For Alamariu the birth of philosophy is likewise connected to anti-egalitarian biological sciences, specifically selective breeding or eugenics. Philosophy is born when aristocracy declines yet tries to preserve the aristocratic principle.." —@M_Millerman

The Wire tracks every move in college sports—are you keeping up?

Relatedly, there are *two* classes being taught on Heidegger at the same time, so there are ~150 UChicago students currently reading Being and Time.

This post is mocking Mamdani, by the way.

Solve crime by abolishing law

Solve homelessness by banning locks on doors to make it easier for the unhoused to enter a house and sleep in it

Will have to read this

Still reading, enjoying, and learning from "One Million Dead," historical fiction about the Spanish Civil War, the sequel to "The Cypresses Believe in God," which discussed the period just before it.