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1// Excited to announce our Seed round!
‘The American founders established a government that very closely resembles the ideal regime laid out by St. Thomas Aquinas. The framers may not have been reading Aquinas, but they were reading the men who read him.’ - @michaeljknowles
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I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
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The real reason why the Protestant doctrine of total depravity and its (appropriately) totally depraved fruits—such as the works of Hegel and Kierkegaard—is so hard to critique in contemporary America is that doing so means imposing as a radical social contradiction, against every counsel of good prudence, an epistemic doctrine of divine illumination that, as Jean-Luc Marion says, is fundamentally connected to the Illuminative etymological root of “accusation.” Satan, of course, is the great accuser—but it is the Satan in all of us, the original sin we all suffer from, that accuses our own conscience when we are faced with the manifestation of genuine Catholic Truth through the procedure of divine illumination, which as St. Augustine saw very well and as Marion outlines magisterially in “In the Self’s Place,” provokes every spasm of resistance imaginable from those sinners who cannot bear to have their conscience accused in confrontation with and overcoming of the Satan (which is just as much to say the Gnostic heretic, or even the liberal) within them—Catholic and Protestant alike. To be on the other side of this vale of accusation is truly to be a sort of “living dead”… dead to the world, precisely as Christ counsels. Trust me: orthodox Catholic gnosis is far headier than any of that heretical stuff. youtu.be/nHF6YGfGRM8?si…
Stumbled upon an interesting debate on AI super-intelligence from 2011. Yudkowsky makes three core claims/predictions, all of which are (to date) wrong: 1) That human intelligence is relatively simple and ASI can be achieved with a few small innovations; ...
