@narrascaping

Narrascaping the Cathedral of AGI. Nick Kant scholar.

 Olympia, Washington
substack.com/@narrascaping
Joined January 2025
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AGI is a Cathedral youtu.be/qUzamklJhqk?si=Ed7G…
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Did science really kill God? The Enlightenment tells us atheism is the logical result of science: after Copernicus, Newton and Darwin, belief simply lost its credibility. Tomer Persico, author of “In God's Image”, says that story is a delusion. Drawing on thinkers from Voltaire to Nietzsche, he argues that atheism's rise in the West owes less to science than to religious values it has never escaped. Tap the link to read now. iai.tv/articles/atheism-cann…
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RDN@rdnxyzOct 27
B/c of the Cyborg Theocracy it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth than to imagine a modest change in our economic order.
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you are just in time to stop believing in intelligence
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_Oct 26
OpenAI has announced to three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics: - Local smoothing and the Kakeya conjecture - The Exponential Time Hypothesis is false - Existence of quantum chromodynamics and completions of the Standard Model
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RDN@rdnxyzOct 26
Cyborg Theocracy
Richard Ngo
@RichardMCNgoOct 26
It’s sad how many of the people who see the decline of Western civilization fall back into Christianity. To me, Christianity feels like a psy-op designed over millennia to satisfy the craving to submit. And “noble” lies are what got us into this mess; only truth can get us out.
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There are no technological solutions to perennial human difficulties. This includes our present-day political technologies.
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Keith Edwards
@keithedwardsOct 25
this is so bleak
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Faith in the physical breeds cathedrals of the spirit. Faith in the spiritual breeds cathedrals of the physical.
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RDN@rdnxyzOct 26
Cyborg Theocracy
Babushka Enjoyer@MetalHorse233Oct 25
Put AI in my blood. Replace my neurons one by one. No brakes. Writing and arithmetic were detours through grain and cattle accounting. We can now speak to intelligence itself and build worlds through conversation. Humanity returns to oral tradition, with the universe talking back
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Dark Mother Cyborg Theocracy
Remus
@remusrisnovOct 25
I think it’s safe to say at this point that the average software engineer spends more time talking to Claude than talking to the opposite sex. I’d wager to say the ratio is at least 3:1 in favor of Claude. Definitely nothing to balk at for the rest of society at large.
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Pirate Wires
@PirateWiresOct 25
For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thiel’s secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons. Now, with Thiel’s blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America. piratewires.com/p/inside-pet…
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Arena Magazine
@arenamagOct 25
Peter Thiel is worried about the Antichrist. For the last four Mondays, he held court for the latest of his lectures on that subject in, of all places, Nashville, Tennessee. @carsonjbecker reports on the lectures, the crowd, and the scenes that unfolded in Nashville.
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Remus
@remusrisnovOct 25
Determinism in its most distilled form is the subconscious yearning to return back to the world of Eden from before the fall, where one need never to decide because all possible decisions have already been made for you.
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Sean Manion
@TheUnjournalingOct 24
Replying to @narrascaping @TrueAIHound
Of course, but evidence has degrees of confidence and I merely seek to climb. ARPA almost funded her work and was no doubt tracking it. It seems plausible that she helped turn the funding back on. 3 years ago I listened to McCarthy telling McCorduck in his '74/75 interviews. I claimed, against the whole AI field and all its history tellers, that he wasn't the first to use the term in the modern sense. A couple months ago I found that was indeed the case (Hamilton, Moon of the Unforgotten, 1951). This, and all of my research, has left me confident that the history of AI, cybernetics (aka teleology) and computing science in general is possible poor. I'll see what I find.
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Zoomers see the boomer fascination with giving and talking about directions, even when everyone has Google maps, as insane. But boomers aren't talking about street names and traffic for cartography sake. They do it to form bonds, establish locality, create shares language. The Boomer urge to tell you what side street to take this time of day is them trying to for mind meld with you. Like it or not? It's the vestigial limb of an ancient bonding strategy which zoomers and even millennials have lost access too to their detriment. It's the tip of the iceberg of social rituals that previously held societies together and which the boomers intentionally dissolved once they used it to establish themselves.
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Sean Manion
@TheUnjournalingOct 24
"What's in a name? From Norbert Wiener's Teleology to Artificial Intelligence" For those interested in my teleology-cybernetics-S/AI explorations, I have a talk upcoming at SCiOs UK virtual meeting 16 Nov systemspractice.org/events/s…
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Sean Manion
@TheUnjournalingOct 24
Put simply
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MTS
@MTSliveOct 23
Dark Æon author @JOEBOTxyz challenges Ray Kurzweil's singularity timeline with the predictions that didn’t come true: "If you read carefully the specifics of The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near, it wasn’t some amazing one-to-one prediction of the future." "The graphs were fancy. The lines kept going up. But he predicted that by now most processing would be done on carbon nanotubes, most people would live within virtual reality, most homes would have a humanoid robot. None of that happened." "Futurism is not an exact science, and there are as many predicted futures as there are fevered egos." "I grew up with all these predictions of apocalypses. If the singularity is the apocalypse, that’s the one that pulled the right lottery number, because all the others have not yet panned out."
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Joe Allen
@JOEBOTxyzOct 24
Self reflection? "This is what never happens with people who are in MAGA." This dude tells you to be friends with AI so it doesn't kill you, then talks about actual human beings with total condescension. Very human, Dr. Hinton. All too human. Reflect on that.
Big Brain AI
@realBigBrainAIOct 23
Nobel Prize winner and University of Toronto Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton says AI could learn by fixing inconsistencies in its own beliefs. His comparison: “This is what never happens with people who are in MAGA”
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Jade Cole@JadeCole2112Oct 23
Then: Abundance, cures for cancer, solutions to climate change and an end to all human suffering. Now:
unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 23
BREAKING: Anthropic executive says cybersecurity issues are going to "get a lot worse before they get better"
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Translation of another recent Agamben text on AI, "A General Demobilization." I find this one strangely interesting actually Original Italian: quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben…
stephanie wakefield
@stephwakefield_Aug 17
Translation of Giorgio Agamben's latest text on AI, "Thought and Imagination: More on Artificial Intelligence." The first one is quoted below. Thoughts? Original Italian: quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben…
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