Duncan Reyburn
@duncanreyburn
Christian Platonist | Professor | The philosophers have only changed the world in various ways; the point, however, is to interpret it.
A provocative thought from Knausgaard’s Wolves of Eternity, keeping in mind that distance is by no means univocal: “… he made me stretch myself. It was the distance between us that made that possible, which is something I've since thought about a lot, how distance as an element…
AI remains more consumptive than productive—it’s a thieving, parasitic zombie-contagion. Anything it spits out is the result of mining what exists. Whatever ‘success’ might be derived from this mining, which requires endless repetitions of bland averages minus all kairos and real…
AI CLAIMS TO PREDICT CAREER SUCCESS—FROM YOUR FACE Researchers analyzed 96,000 MBA graduates’ facial images to link personality traits with career outcomes. They claim AI can identify traits like conscientiousness or neuroticism to predict success. Critics warn this could…
The greatest trick big tech ever pulled was to make surveillance voluntary
Who needs Big Brother when you have hordes of people with a desire to emulate the surveillance state? Technophiles are the most unimaginative people on the planet; aware of what they intend tech to be used for, but oblivious to what it will actually be used for.
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My new book, This Present World, will be out next month. "What you know best, because you learned it by an unquestionable experience, looks the most difficult to express. Every serious thinker has to face this paradox. One of the best, but most challenging tactics leads to…
“A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everything is destined to disappear as a reality and reappear as a simulation.
The Tower of Babel was a really gigantic prison that’d fit everyone inside it.
Modernity is dead. Modernity remains dead. And we have killed it. Thank God! Things are much better this way.
My new book, This Present World, will be out next month. "What you know best, because you learned it by an unquestionable experience, looks the most difficult to express. Every serious thinker has to face this paradox. One of the best, but most challenging tactics leads to…
In the book of Genesis, Cain kills his brother, ends up radically alienated from God and people, and goes on to found a city on the assumption that more technology will help address his alienation (the line of Cain, the seed of the serpent, also produces the first weapons and the…
At times, AI existential dread is overwhelming
The man with the world's "highest" IQ is a tripped out gnostic. Evidence of why IQ is not an accurate means of measuring human intelligence or understanding intellect.
From the world's highest IQ record holder: We are living in a simulation. The Creator of the simulation is God. Jesus is the One who breaks the Matrix and leads us into the true reality, the Kingdom of God. That's why Jesus is the Lord.
History must be lived outside-in but can only be understood inside-out.
History must be lived forward but can only be understood backwards
“Love makes everything lovely: hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.” — George MacDonald
Today I spent a fair amount of time contemplating the fact that beneath our feet, and a shield of earth, is an absolutely insane molten hell-pit nightmare of volcanic rage. 10/10 (Would Recommend).
The reign of quantity is a recipe for scapegoating. Just add electricity to maximise destructiveness.
