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@iluminatibot Yeah, this is the ultimate “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” strategy. The idea that we can build something that will save us is hubris on steroids. It cannot transcend us to provide real solutions, it can only amplify our errors.

This is giving me Antichrist vibes Citadel CEO Ken Griffin: “The world needs a savior, and the hope is that AI is the savior.”

Yeah, this is a ridiculous “pull yourself up from your bootstraps” idea. The idea that we can build something that will save us is hubris on steroids. It cannot transcend us to provide real solutions, it can only amplify our errors.

@LuizaJarovsky The honor of going to an Ivy League school should be so great that a person given that honor should not want to cheat. One of two possible causes: 1. The young people no longer believe in honor and dignity 2. The institutions are no longer honorable. Probably some of both

🚨 Princeton's 133-year-old Honor Code was NOT enough to tackle AI cheating, and for the first time since 1893 (!), it will mandate proctoring for ALL in-person exams. Expect other schools and universities to follow suit: Princeton's Honor Code was instituted in 1893 in response to a student petition to end proctoring during examinations. The Honor Code is based on individual accountability, as each student pledges to refrain from academic dishonesty and also to report if they see someone else violating it. According to the decision taken a few days ago: “The ease of access of these AI tools on a small personal device has also changed the external appearance of misconduct during an examination (...), making cheating much harder for other students to observe (and hence to report).” Starting on July 1st, ALL in-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored. As I have written a few times before in my newsletter, AI affects cognitive development, and it directly impacts learning and educational systems. To avoid the negative impact of AI and to protect education, we should return to pen and paper, blue books, and in-person exams. There were misconceptions and miscalculations with smartphones and social media, and those mistakes should not be repeated with AI. Schools and universities should take bold decisions now and adapt accordingly (and fast). Of course, students should learn about AI and know how to use and experiment with it. However, that doesn't mean the educational system should be FLOODED with AI (including AI cheating) and its negative interference with learning and cognition. Expect more schools and universities to announce similar measures. - 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 95,000+ subscribers below.

@DanielPink Two different messages seem to dominate: 1. AI will take your job 2. AI will actually mean you work more Neither one of these sound good. I want to work a normal amount and have - healthy work-life balance

Every AI pitch promises the same thing: Do more in less time. Finally get to the important stuff. Work less. New research from Berkeley followed real workers for 8 months. That's not what happened. 👇

@r0ck3t23 Technology should improve our life, not define it. When the guys who make the tech become philosophers of the new meaning of life and work, you know you are dealing with something that has ceased to be “just a tool.”

Jensen Huang just described something that should keep every worker in America awake tonight. Not because AI is coming for their job. Because most of them never understood what their job actually was. Huang: “The task of our job and the purpose of our job are related, not the same.” Most people think their job is the thing they do with their hands for eight hours a day. Write code. Fill spreadsheets. Draft emails. Push pixels. That was never the job. That was the task. The job was always the thinking underneath it. Huang: “If you apply that to me, you would come to the conclusion what Jensen does for a living is tap on phones and talk. And tapping on phones and talking, AI has done that just fine. And therefore my job should be gone. But I’m busier than ever.” This is the part nobody wants to sit with. The people panicking about AI aren’t afraid of losing their work. They’re afraid of finding out they never had any. They had a routine. A repetitive motion. A series of keystrokes that felt like purpose. Now a machine does it in four seconds. Huang: “AI has created more than half a million jobs in the last couple of years.” The data says one thing. The fear says another. Because the fear was never about employment numbers. It was about identity. We spent fifty years hunched over keyboards, convinced the hunching was the work. Huang: “The idea that being human means to hunch over on this little thing, typing all the time… 50 years before that, people didn’t do that.” Fifty years. That’s all it took to build an entire identity around a posture. We don’t type for a living. We think for a living. We imagine for a living. The keyboard was always just the delivery mechanism. Never the product. Huang: “It is a fundamental flaw that we only need a billion lines of code written. We need a trillion lines of code written.” The demand was always infinite. The bottleneck was always our fingers. AI doesn’t shrink the workforce. It removes the cap on what the workforce can actually build. Huang: “Companies that use AI have demonstrated the ability to grow faster. When they grow faster, they hire more people.” Growth doesn’t eliminate people. It pulls them in. Every industrial revolution triggered the same panic. Same headlines. Same wrong conclusion. And every single time, the economy didn’t contract. It expanded into territory that didn’t exist before. The real question was never whether AI takes your job. It was whether you were ever anything more than the motions you repeated. Because somewhere in the last fifty years, we stopped asking what the work was for. We just kept typing. And now the typing is done. And millions of people are about to meet themselves for the first time. With nothing to hide behind. Some of them won’t survive what they find.

In this book I talk about different philosophical positions and what light they may shed on the idea of AI consciousness. I talk about the ancient atomists, Descartes, Kant, Hume, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, etc. If you are interested in philosophy I think you will enjoy it.

Check out my book - Shadows and Light: A Christian Primer on AI and Consciousness. Uncover the truth about the machine and recover the truth about your humanity. amazon.com/Shadows-Light-…

@ARIKAHENRY I think we’ve seen the future at some point - whether in a dream or a vision. Such visions/dreams are not clear enough to predict the future because they are accompanied by irrational dreams - but once they happen we remember. God’s way to remind us there is more to the story

What do you think might be happening when we experience deja vu?

@realmikolson “Free” speech does take on a whole new meaning when viewed from this perspective

Hmm, yeah gonna have to disagree here. I don’t believe Elon Musk bought Twitter to “save free speech.” I believe he bought Twitter because he wanted the data for his AI/transhuman project.

@itaisher And this:

@itaisher Also this:

“AI threatening to put almost all mathematicians out of a job” Typical example of substituting what you think will happen for what has actually happened. It’s nonstop with AI.

@cosmicfibretion Consciousness is a fire that has been lit by our creator - part of the Imago Dei. Science can’t explain it because it transcends the physical plane which is the only domain open to empirical investigation. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

I know the Soul exists because I can feel mine. Science, at present, doesn’t have the tools to explain the Soul, but that doesn’t mean one day it won’t. And I believe it will.

@pardon_mi Part of the problem is that the AI gurus are telling them that they don’t need any other skills - all they will be doing is prompting an AI. This kind of messaging is poison to the mind.

this article is definitely worth the read

@BiblicalBeauty Schaefer said that many people meet Jesus when they are saved, and plan to meet him again when they go to heaven, but in the meantime they don’t understand the reality of a life lived in the reality and presence of Christ in the here and now.

I get the sense that a lot of Christian parents are fairly content to raise their kids very similarly to how unbelievers raise their kids, giving them the same type of education, doing virtually all of the same activities, enjoying pretty much all of the same entertainment, sharing very similar daily schedules and long-term goals for their future, and the only real difference is that they do all of this while being really “nice” people who believe in Jesus. But surely, knowing the Lord of the Universe will have a more dramatic effect on our lives than that.

@AstronomyVibes If the universe always existed we could never get to this point. Think about it - if time goes infinitely forward, we will never reach the end. If time goes infinitely backward, we could have never gotten here.

What if the universe has no beginning… and no end? 🤯 Before the Big Bang became the most famous explanation of our cosmos, there was a bold and mysterious idea called the Steady State Theory. It claimed something almost unbelievable: the universe has always existed exactly as it is now—and it always will. Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing you’re not seeing a story that started billions of years ago… but a universe that never truly began. No creation moment. No explosive birth. Just an endless, unchanging ocean of galaxies. But here’s the strange part… Scientists noticed the universe is expanding—galaxies are moving farther apart every second. So how can it stay the same? The Steady State Theory had a shocking answer: new matter is constantly being created out of nothing. Tiny amounts, invisible to us, quietly forming new stars and galaxies to keep the universe looking unchanged. It sounds almost impossible… like something out of science fiction. For a while, this idea fascinated some of the greatest minds. It felt elegant. Eternal. Almost comforting. But then came discoveries that changed everything… Faint echoes of radiation, spread across the universe, told a different story—one of a fiery beginning. The Big Bang started to take over, and the Steady State Theory slowly faded into the shadows. Still… the question remains: What if we misunderstood something? What if the universe is far stranger than we think?

What kind of perverse and corrupt individual gets such an honor as having the opportunity to got to Princeton, and says, “yep, Gonna cheat my way through this.”

@sfmcguire79 When students get into Princeton, and still do not have enough honor and dignity to not cheat their way to graduation, we are beyond cooked.

Concerns about academic integrity have led the Princeton faculty to make a major change to the honor code: “All in-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1, representing the most significant change to the honor system since it was established in 1893.” “The historic vote was the culmination of months of deliberation within the administration and student governing bodies about how to address increasing concerns over academic integrity violations, including the proliferation of AI usage.” “In The Daily Princetonian’s 2025 Senior Survey of over 500 seniors, 29.9 percent of respondents reported that they had cheated on an assignment or exam during their time at Princeton.”

@xriskology If it is going to someday make everything free and abundant, shouldn’t it at least by this point be making it a little cheaper? Why I am paying more for goods and services - even digital services? Even @grok is now behind a pay wall

AI has certainly made the world much better so far. From mass surveillance to AI psychosis to slop, junk, disinformation, & deepfakes to helping the US military violate international & constitutional laws, etc. AI has radically improved the world, and will continue to do so!

@Kekius_Sage It may be in someway related to something we don’t really understand and in a way that we can’t really explain

Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson says consciousness may be connected to physics in ways science still cannot explain.

@JeremyWard33 I remember when the entire country got upset back in the early 2010s over 1 datacenter in Utah collecting their information. Oh how the times have changed

AI data centers and power plants are now "war infrastructure" - overriding local laws and mass protest