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Jun 8
With apologies for the late notice! I get to talk with Tish Harrison Warren about her beautiful new book, WHAT GROWS IN WEARY LANDS, today at 1pm EDT. You can join for the Zoom seminar here: eventbrite.com/e/what-grows-…
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By far the best thing I've read on the encyclical. thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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May 27
I love Catholic Social Doctrine and am glad to see its core principles reiterated — but in the end MH feels too indebted to existing frameworks to really address the res novae of our time. Yuval's piece gets much closer to the heart of the matter.
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Extremely good interview between two very sharp people (@nwilliams030 & @ahc) on technology, the family, co-living, and much more!
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Apr 29
I expect (vs predict) that there will be a 9/11-level event (causing grievous harm to >thousands of people) that will change the direction of AI policy in ways that are genuinely unforeseeable right now. Biosecurity is a strong candidate for the vector, though there are others.
So much of our biosecurity infrastructure is built around assuming we will retain the moats / signals of suspicious activity we've relied on in the path.
That is very, very unlikely.
Biosecurity, not job loss, remains my expected cause of a strong AI backlash.
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I get an out-of-the blue email from someone wanting to connect. Seems like a nice guy but man, it sure reads like AI at least co-wrote it. In any case, these days I have to decline most such requests (to my frustration). I write back, personally, saying so as kindly as I can.
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Apr 29
He accidentally replies to me instead of his business partner, speculating that my email may be an "AI-generated template email response."
This dynamic is going to be the death of all remaining trust on the Internet.
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Apr 29
I don't even use spell check, and never use AI in personal correspondence, or for that matter any writing that will see the light of day in any form (I use it for lots of other things). But soon enough we are just going to assume that everything is a bot. Sigh.
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Apr 23
It is SO fascinating that one of the most popular podcasts ever, ACQUIRED, completely changed their focus, from their original title to stories of enduring, often multigenerational brands.
Impact (Force / Time) is way overrated. Influence (force ^ time) is so much better.
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Apr 23
"Some of my most important formative educational experiences involved some teacher or authority figure losing patience with me."—John Warner
YES. The most significant piano lesson in my life ended early because my teacher was so frustrated with my heartless playing of Beethoven.
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Apr 23
And the most important grade I ever got was a C from my beloved 9th grade English teacher (RIP Ellen Nardiello), for an essay that I to this day think was not that bad, but that she knew was far beneath what I could have written if I tried.
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Apr 23
Huh. Writing that last sentence I first typed, "if I cried," which actually was the heart of the matter in both cases.
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Apr 10
A rule of life that hasn't failed me yet: Always read Laura Fabrycky. The Praying Woman of NATO: comment.org/the-praying-woma…
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Apr 1
Just spent two days with senior staff at Anthropic and a group of Christians deeply committed to finding redemptive paths for AI. Encouraging on many fronts. Above all I think the guests were unanimously blown away by the humility and moral seriousness of Anthropic's leadership.
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Apr 1
But I think it is quite remarkable that a leadership role in the AI race has fallen to a group of people who understand the issues at stake so well and have created a real counterculture to so much of their industry and sector.
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Apr 1
(After reading some responses, I realize many will not have seen Praxis's redemptive thesis for AI — this comes closest to representing my own views on key issues: journal.praxis.co/a-redempti…)
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Feb 12
This is very much worth reading.
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Jan 23
Fabulous essay by Meghan Sullivan, not just applicable to universities.
comment.org/what-is-the-univ…
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And honestly, institutions also need formed customers / donors / constituents who want (and will pay for / underwrite) something other than efficiency narrowly understood.
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Jan 23
The one sentence in Meghan's essay I disagree with, that I'm afraid will cause knowledgeable people to laugh mordantly, is the one about liberal arts colleges being immune to the pressure to scale educational "productivity." :)
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