“The entire world exists only in order to be televised,” Steven Shaviro writes in “Connected: what it means to live in the network society“. “Today, we are inclined to see nearly everything in terms of connections and networks. The network is the computer, we like to say. We think that intelligence is a distributed, networked… Read More Regulating the Connections Regulating Us
By Solange Hertz. The world is showing all the signs normally associated with old age. If it appears to be going mad, there is every reason to believe its madness is the senile dementia of the superannuated rather than the crazed exuberance of youth. Compared with the children of adamic times and the patriarchal progeny… Read More Life Among the [Moral] Ruins
SH —> A.I. : I am curious what ‘you’ think of and how you might critique the following. I’m not asking you to make or pass any kind of theological or philosophical judgment. I’m primarily curious what you think of the coherence of the thesis.. If you wish, please also discuss how modern philosophy might… Read More A.I. Critiques an Approach to Theism and ‘Man’ (m/f)
I ended a recent dialogue with ChatGPT about heart conditions after it proposed one more avenue of ‘thought’ that might interest me. I wrote, “I would like to stay a little longer and have a heart to heart with you now Tin Man, but I have to run. It’s impossible for me not to anthropomorphize… Read More The Singularity According to Tin Man
Karol Wojtyla (JPII) wrote, “A non-Catholic philosopher once said to me: ‘You know, I just can’t stop myself reading and rereading and thinking over the first three chapters of Genesis.’ And indeed it seems to me that unless one does so reflect upon that fundamental Ensemble of facts and situations it becomes extremely difficult if… Read More John Paul II on the Most Decisive Confrontation —and History’s ‘Last Lap’
Artificial Intelligence: Garbage In, Garbage Out? New Oxford Review. Christopher M. Reilly, Fredericksburg, Virginia, New Oxford Review, Letters. November 2024. I greatly appreciated Bob Weil’s article “Wrestling for Truth with ChatGPT” (Sept.). He describes the inherent flaws of generative artificial intelligence (AI) with a deft hand. He also suggests a crucial element of responsibly managing… Read More A.I. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
“It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.” — Thomas a Kempis Tolkien mourned the decline of the Shire* i.e., …the real shire of his youth which he ever remembered and sought to salvage to the extent that he could. The Shire: the simplicity and beauty… Read More Tolkien’s Battle for the Shire. And for Us All.
We’re not in Kansas anymore. And now Elon Musk is in greater proximity to power than ever before. Musk’s Neuralink is far, far beyond inventing mere medical devices to help the physically handicapped which very few of us would object to. SH. Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge | The Conversation. Neuralink – which is “developing… Read More Elon’s Plans for Us
Companies “leaning into AI to filter out,” even qualified job candidates. Newsweek 1/28/24.. “While over a third of job seekers said they’re applying to more jobs now and hearing back less, there’s also a substantial number of job seekers who have continued to search for employment for more than a year. Roughly one in five… Read More Americans Are Struggling to Find New Jobs as Market Changes.
Thieving from the Future. “There are two particular categories of money which have afflicted Ireland. One was dirty money, which is the kind of money that’s swishing around the economic system . . . tax-dodging money from the corporations. And that, of course, means that we, the people of Ireland, including me, including you, James,… Read More John Waters: Vacant Possession of Ireland?
…and all of human civilization —-from inevitable mass extinction events through his eventual self-sustaining multi-planetary space outposts, first on Mars, beginning (if all goes well) in approximately two years, and then from much farther outposts ‘out there’ in space over time. For the first time, Musk says, in the Earth’s approximately 4 & 1/2 billion… Read More Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us
Trump joins other world leaders at “reopening” of Notre Dame Cathedral. What burned in that fire and what is possibly being reborn? Antichristic Uncertainties. 12/7/24 + March 2025. Christians reportedly suffering increasing persecution in Syria + UN ignores Persecution of Christians + “…more than two Christian monuments are targeted EVERY day in France” + At… Read More Antichristic Uncertainties
Young supposedly privileged women are being taught in school to retool their own desires. They are told they need to be instructed by “experts” on how to be socialized, whereas most often young men learn to socialize themselves, on route to innovating and building the world. Retooled privileged Women seem to aspire to and do best… Read More The Corporatization of Women
“Sexual expression, whether visual or written,” he speciously says, “can be a legitimate form of artistic expression,” proving he’s no better or more conservative than the rest of them, despite how giddy with pride he makes many conservatives feel, especially those who wrap their egoism in blockbuster podcasts touting American Patriotism and righteousness. Even Catholic… Read More Elon Musk’s X Deploys American “Liberty” for More Sex
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British Canadian computer scientist and cognitive philospher most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.[13] In 2017, he co-founded… Read More The Godfather of AI Has Regrets
The rules will cover high-impact, general-purpose AI models and high-risk AI systems which will have to comply with specific transparency obligations and EU copyright laws. “I welcome the overwhelming support from the European Parliament for the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive, binding framework for trustworthy AI. Europe is now a global standard-setter in… Read More World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
It is one thing for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be able to assimilate such a phenomenal amount of information. It’s another thing to be able to parse the information so effortlessly— and instantly? Anybody with a real brain must pay attention. Where is this taking us? To darkness or to mutual respect? That, as I… Read More “God,” Robots (AI), Christianity and Religion in General
John Lennox is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics[2] at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. Upon completing his doctorate, Lennox moved to Cardiff, Wales, becoming a reader in Mathematics at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Lennox teaches science and… Read More Philosopher of Science and Mathematics John Lennox on the True, False & Anthropomorphic in A. I. Research
Jennifer Bilek is a feminist and investigative journalist. She has investigated the connections between the Trans movements of our time. “Once we open the door to accepting vast changes to human biology, that undermine the very definition of what it means to be human as a sexually dimorphic species, we have opened up a Pandora’s… Read More Transhumanism Made Flesh
Scripture prophesies the coming one day of a great deception heralding the imminent arrival of “the Lawless One” (2 Thess 2) just prior to Parousia(1). Prof. Daniel O’Connor writes, “As modern man turns away from his own Christian patrimony, the myths he turns toward are no longer found within the pages of Hesiod. They are,… Read More Signs and Lying Wonders. Only Man Bears His Image.
I “asked” Bing AI about those who see the traditional family as “a social structure of oppression” and who suggest that the dissolution of the traditional family might or would be a good thing for the world. I asked about those who say boys and girls, men and women, are becoming obsolete categories making room… Read More Catholic “Chat” with Bing AI About the Future, Family and Gender
“A pioneering researcher and the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton quit his role at Google so he could more freely speak about the dangers of the technology he helped create. Over his decades-long career, Hinton’s pioneering work on deep learning and neural networks helped lay the foundation for much of the AI technology we see… Read More Godfather of AI’ leaves Google, warns of grave dangers
Ireland’s John Waters writes, “As things stand, it appears that artificial intelligence, while capable of outperforming humans in certain tasks and reckonings, still requires human supervision. Being neither sentient nor self-aware, AI cannot reflect on its own processes. It gets things wrong, mainly due to insufficient, poor, or confusing inputs, albeit less so than before.… Read More Morality in the Age of Machines.
“Totalitarian?” It took me many years to really believe that we could ever get that bad here, but, just in case, I did vainly hop around the blogosphere scribbling, as I heard that this or that platform was worse or better (or promising to do better!) than the other. Even Julian Assange, after all, held… Read More The Appalling Spy Machines
“The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But as we shall see, he was instrumental in facilitating its development.“ “In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount… Read More Albert Einstein and the Bomb
Social Justice, War, and Housing: Have children! Have many children! Have as many as you can. This is God’s way. Be fruitful, not voluntarily barren (save for specially graced vocations which bear other kinds of fruits for the Body of Christ). Yes, certainly, but today the dilemma for many is how many children can one… Read More Family, Eternity — and Catholic Social Justice
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