Peter Merritt Dobey
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Peter Merritt Dobey
@PeterDobey
Analyst who works with artists and other engineers. Post-Lacanian, trained in Europe. Discontent with psychoanalysis in USA. In California, I dream of snow.


Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.

Umberto Eco in his library in Milan. He had 30,000 volumes there and another 20,000 at his other library, near Urbino.

we're all dead. I'm a transhumanist, I love tech, I desperately want aligned AI, but at our current stage of development, this is building the equivalent of a planet-sized nuke. The reason is boring and complicated and technical, so midwits in power don't understand the danger




Bwahahahaha she's trying soooo hard. Imagine being this rich and the president, but your wife still hates being next to you.



Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media.













