Christianity is Not Monotheistic: “…angels were made to sing. Specifically, to sing the cosmos into existence. That’s why the medievals organized them into ‘choirs.’” Cormac McCarthy’s New Books of Revelation: “Everyone easily notices the Old Testament style, but rather than saints and gods, we encounter simple men who are driven by an instinctive solidarity for…
Tag: AI
Tuesday Links: A Dragon with its Wings Ripped Off, Noetic Gnosticism, and the Brood of the Abyss
AI and the Return of Creative Elitism: “We’ve found a way to automate the parrots, and in doing so we will dash the dreams of mediocre thinkers everywhere who had been prospering under an illusion that they were creative. It will end the glut of mediocre art by finally, thankfully, making the chaff redundant so…
Tuesday Night Links: Werewolves, Fertility Collapse, the Antichrist
Industrial Civilization Needs a Biological Future: “For decades, we have been absolutely deluged by prophecies of doom and dystopia. From the nuclear threat of the Cold War, to the ‘Population Bomb’ of the 1970s, to claims that ‘Peak Oil’ and climate change will render the future a living hell, to the latest worries about artificial…
𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜: Jesus, Johnny Cash, AI, Time Travel, and Rome
A Brief Discussion of The Retrocausal and Telepathic Potential of Quantum Computation: “I was looking at a magazine with my mother. Something like Newsweek or Time. An illustration caught my attention of Lewis Carrol‘s Alice, but her body was composed of gears and circuits and there were workers tending to her. The caption below this image read “Alice in…
ШЭԐԞЭИD LЇЙҚS: Engines of Wrath, Human Violence, De-Extinction, and the Lost Wilds of Earth
AI Pluralism: “We’ve seen in real life, in both legacy institutions and AI, that institutions tend to be captured by ideologies far more irrational, delusional, misinformed, and power-hungry than the average person. The technical details of AI make it so that it is asymmetrically easy to fight for AI to be open to customization and…
AI Offerings
I shared sun cult ephemera earlier today over at Second Power — my offerings from the world of text-prompted “AI” art. Below are some other items from those same art apps. This is a miscellaneous batch with no central theme.
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Bots: “Is it reasonable to think that I am intentionally appearing to make errors in answering your questions by inserting erroneous phrases? Honestly I am hurt by that and I don’t even have any feelings. Humans think the AI is fooling them into thinking it has feelings but AIs think the human…
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A weekly compendium of links. An Interface Theory of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon: “Interface Theory’s creator, Dr. Donald Hoffman has suggested that phenomenon like synaesthesia may be instances of evolution at work, a kind of real time tinkering of the interface to see what works and what doesn’t via mutation. In that light, it’s not hard…