pre-internet civilization is an incomprehensible fever dream. sending tapes through the mail? DVD rental services? physical letters that take weeks to arrive? you've got to be kidding me. there's no way that ever existed.

Friends, the book that I've poured myself into for the past three years—through the birth of two children!—is finally out. The One and the Ninety-Nine is about relationships, and more specifically the quest for real communion in a fractured age. Order a copy today: amazon.com/One-Ninety-Nine-F…

The living cell, once thought to be a precise molecular factory, is turning out to be more like an improvising jazz ensemble. | iai.tv/articles/organisms-ar… The old dogma—one gene, one protein, one function—has collapsed. Molecular biologist Ewa Grzybowska argues that recent discoveries show that proteins can switch folds, shift shapes, or even remain gloriously unstructured, improvising their roles as they go. Genes are not blueprints but texts, open to continuous interpretation by cells. Life, it turns out, is not built like a machine but is instead fluid, improvisational, and brimming with creative possibility.

Good thing too. I am a philosopher and theologian. Engineers built the “Crystal Palace.” If you want to know why it might not be the best thing to have engineers build your society (think social engineering) you might want to crack open “The Technological Society” by Jacques Ellul or Iain McGilchrist’s “The Master and His Emissary.” Or you could just read Dostoyevsky, “Notes From Underground.” It is perhaps still to this day one of the most devastating critiques of modernity. Written in the mid 1800’s.

Staring at a wall for nine hours has tremendous livestreaming potential, kid has great instincts.

Boomerism is male mimicry (to ingestion & full psychic takeover) of the pseudo-leadership impulse derived out of the intrasexual homicide cloak called feminism. Each of these men depicted, each that will wind out as Aesthetica describes, is, like the drone honeybee, serving. The queen in this analogy is an entity too, with a name, and a historical footprint.

There’s no politics in America. Only Cyborg Theocracy. The future will be fought for in religious battles.

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought."

The worship of intelligence is and is not luciferian. That the intellect is the most divine part of man is a well established notion among certain schools that nobody would call luciferian. But that intellect can be turned against God...that is established, too.

Fable 5's multiplayer isn't as good as it used to be.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

simulation theory is the terminus of rational theodicope, a telos born of leibniz anointing reason, windowless monads unraveling in pre-established harmony, annihilating the metaphysical god and in collapse unveiling the hypophysical one in this best of all possible worlds

the non-neutrality of tools is overlooked more often than the non-neutrality of your mom

Where the AI danger is, grows the AI saving power also.

Kant argues that stupidity is not the absence of intelligence, but its superstrate. Meaning that when intelligence succeeds, stupidity proliferates on top of it. Intelligence builds and optimizes systems so that stupidity can inhabit them. In other words, the more intelligent a civilization becomes, the more elaborate its forms of stupidity become. Ancient tribes fought over who had the bigger sticks. Knicks fans spend their life savings on Finals tickets and assault Spurs fans in wemby jerseys-documenting it all live on social media. tl_dr "The primitive error is ignorance. The advanced error is optimization." Fanged Phenomena, Chapter 9: The Stupidity Gradient, Nick Kant

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