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I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

I increasingly think AI has created a new cultural category: consumption experienced as production. You can spend hours prompting images, code, videos, stories, and ideas and feel intensely engaged throughout the process. It feels active rather than passive. But often what is happening is that you are consuming an endless stream of machine-generated novelty, customised precisely to your tastes. The cultural challenge of AI may not be distinguishing human-generated content from AI-generated content. It may be distinguishing genuine authorship from highly personalised entertainment.

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

RT @MacaesBruno: People tie themselves in knots trying to explain the content of contemporary ideas when they are merely symptoms of decay…

Parents: Do not give your children any AI companions or AI enhanced toys. With social media 15 years ago, we can say we didn't know. With AI, we can already see some of the harms, such as suicide and psychosis. Other harms will surface years from now. afterbabel.com/p/dont-give-y…

Is AI different? In the past technologies (dishwashers, word processors, etc.) moved workers up the added value scale, w/productivity at the bottom. AI is moving lawyers,editors,radiologists into lower value jobs: Uber drivers, waiters... Gains are going to technofeudalists

RT @MacaesBruno: I hope everyone can see this is not AI. It’s the metaverse rebranded

🚨 INDAUTOR INFORMA La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación resolvió que las obras creadas por inteligencia artificial 🤖 no pueden registrarse como derechos de autor en México. ⚖️ La creatividad protegida por la ley es exclusivamente humana.

1/Increasingly bothered by the argument that the path to “intelligence” requires the theft of all known intellectual property. That’s not anything but theft, and if you were actually building “intelligence” it theoretically requires near zero training data.

the next time Claude Code deletes your database or code, remember this:

Get that? The problem isn't that Midjourney wants to replace all the animation artists - it's that they didn't pay the movie studios license fees for the training data. They didn't create "partnerships." 47/

Cory D’s theory of web enshittification is essential for understanding the online world today and the emerging venture capital led economy.

"It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need." ~ Alan Moore

Focus on effort, not outcomes. It’s insane to tie your wellbeing to things outside of your control, Marcus Aurelius said. If you did your best, if you gave it your all, if you acted with your best judgment—that's a win…regardless of whether it’s a good or bad outcome.

Here's an ungated version of the Phone Free Schools essay, at AfterBabel.com ungated version here: afterbabel.com/p/phone-free-…

RT @davetroy: All extremely predictable, and predicted by non-cultists for years. Tech has a cult problem.

🧵Watching the West stumble from one crisis to the next, I think democratic governance has been hollowed by our inept elites, possibly beyond repair. I see this both as a byproduct of globalization and what has been happening deep inside our nations and our communities. 1/10

RT @MacaesBruno: I would say the US was deindustrialised (with the consequent social and economic breakdown outside the coasts) by Wall Str…

With Tech and governments fusing into a single dystopian entity, this might be the last good fight to give unless we win. Stop this #DevelopmentalHolocaust !

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