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I want to see Peter Theil and Paul Kingsnorth in a room together.
Theil states that the development of "AI" is heralding the Second Coming of Christ as foretold in the Biblical Book of Revelations He has stated that be believes that anyone who opposes the development of AI is an agent of the Biblical antichrist.
Kingsnorth believes that "AI" itself is the actual Biblical antichrist and the people developing it are agents of the Devil. Anyone who opposes "AI" is therefore carrying out the Lord's work.
They are both apparently very Christian men. You have to be a Christian to believe in the existence of the antichrist after all.
Their common frame of reference is their religion. This means that they cannot both be right as their views are in complete opposition. I guess they would accuse one another of lying about their faith and beliefs right at the start of the argument. Sooner or later the words "no real Christian" would be used, probably sooner. So would "you are In league with the devil".
Of course there is a (incredibly) high probability that they are both wrong at least in their choice of conceptual framework to attempt to describe the development of "AI". To my mind they are both co-opting the language and metaphors of a belief system they understand in order to attempt to describe the characteristics of something entirely novel. Even if there really is a god and every word of the bible is true I think they are both comparing apples to oranges.
To create this new conceptual framework there has to be an urgent debate on the morals and ethics of "AI" development. Of course this will draw heavily on existing areas of culture such as morals, ethics, epistemology, art, economics, politics, power, money and more. There is a need to expand these fields and invent new language and concepts to describe what is occurring and could possibly occur in the novel field of "AI" development.
Even if the terms of the debate are not fully realized debate is still possible using existing cultural and philosophical frameworks while the required new frameworks are created. Many people who take part in the existing debates about "AI" are convinced there is a significant risk that developing ever more "advanced" "AI" poses an existential risk to humanity and all of life on the planet. There are a vast array of ways this could come about from the mundane to the potentially insane.
It appears these concerns and views are often ignored or shouted down by capitalists, politicians and even the users of "AI" . It also appears that many of the people actually working on developing "AI" express the same deep concerns about the destructive potential of their work in private but carry on with their work regardless.
I guess that Kingsnorth would say these developers are agents of the Adversary and Thiel would say they are doing the Lord's work. I personally think the developers / managers / investors etc carry on regardless purely for prestige, fame and fortune. Those are all powerful and highly addictive motivations for doing anything and many people find them irresistible.
Personally I don't need religious metaphors to think about "AI". I think its creators are deluded fools and / or psychopaths. I think that people who generate slop are lazy and ignorant. I think that the people who accept slop as art are gullible fools.
For me at least the existential threat posed by "AI" slop is the destruction of all meaning in human art, culture and civilization. All art, culture and civilization is an expression of meaning. All humans derive meanings of all kinds from art, culture and civilization. They combine to create humanity itself.
Slop is meaningless gibberish based on a statistical analysis of prior art. The process of generating slop eliminates all meaning and produces mere "content". (That is a very telling word in my view)
When everything beyond an individual humans personal existence has no meaning what hope is there for humanity? In the past humanity screamed art, culture and civilization and most importantly meaning into the void in the hope that that other humans recognized and understood the message their screams attempted to convey. "AI" is the void screaming meaningless slop at humanity.
Perhaps we will merge with the machines and become one with God in Heaven as Thiel envisages. Perhaps "AI" / The Adversary will triumph and doom us all to endless torment as Kingsnorth predicts.
Both Kingsnorth and Theil are right that meaning and belief are vital to the debate. Their choice of belief system to frame the debate is the problem I have with their arguments.
I think humanity will go collectively insane. Humans need to believe that their actions are meaningful. When slop eradicates our belief in the power of art, culture, civilization and humanity to give meaning to our lives we will all go bug fuck insane.
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If I sit and think about it, I fear that as a society we are engaged in a cumulative Sisyphean enterprise that consists of successive generations following the same established and artificial systems and mistaking them for anything approaching reality and actual meaning.
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Something I found recently relating to wellbeing and establishing some sense of purpose in life.
I have a feeling that regular engagement with simple, little positive things gradually steers my perception in a more helpful direction.
This article seems like a succinct reflection of my own findings.
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music, also, it is fulfilled in each moment of the course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
Alan Watts (1915-1973) Anglo-American philosopher, writer
The Wisdom of Insecurity, ch. 7 “The Transformation of Life” (1951)
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Add meaning to your life
Meaning is constructed one reinforcing action at a time.
In other words, meaning isn’t something you discover after a long search. It’s something you build, one small, worthwhile action after the other.
Life tends to feel meaningful when we spend time doing things that matter to us and that offer some sense of reward. This is not necessarily excitement, but a quiet feeling of “that was worth doing.”
Contexts and the supposed irrelevance of meaning in Shannon’s "Mathematical Theory of Communication”. #111Words #CEShannon #Meaning #Context #InformationTheory https://111-words.ghost.io/contexts-and-the-supposed-irrelevance-of-meaning-in-shannons-mathematical-theory-of-communication/
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“You are the sum total of all of your highs and each of your lows.“ - Futurist Jim Carroll, via Lauren Daigle
Some songs speak to your soul.
And some lyrics reach out and grab you by the throat.
This one did.
It hits you right in the pre-chorus of Lauren Daigle's "You Say." She asks the question: "Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaT8Jl2zpI
The song came on while I was out for one of my first outdoor walks since my November spinal injury, and it hit the moment perfectly.
My answer to her question is: Yes, you are more—but you are also the sum.
You must accept the lows as a critical part of the process rather than pretending they don't exist. Otherwise, you'll never have the opportunity to learn from them.
In my career as a futurist, I tell clients that innovation isn't a straight line "up and to the right." It’s a messy squiggly line of breakthroughs and failures. You cannot have the "High" of a new invention without the "Low" of the failed prototype.
If you delete the failure, you delete the lesson.
My incident has informed me. It has taught me that the "lows"—the pain, the confinement, the loss of the ski season, the frustration,was not lost time. It was valuable insight.
It was the construction site where my resilience was being reinforced.
Rebar for life, if you think about it!
When life throws you a curveball, you have to live through and feel the emotions, rather than trying to hide from them.
Don't edit out the lows. Own them. They are the only reason the highs mean anything at all.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is back out for his regular morning sunrise walks, and is back to the gym. It feels great!
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/02/daily-inspiration-you-are-the-sum-total-of-all-of-your-highs-and-each-of-your-lows/
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“Forgiveness... A secret garden where Joy and miracles abound, and the garden is always open to everyone who makes the Loving choice to visit there.”
― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
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