Will AI Technology Cause More Problems Than It Can Solve?
To any software engineers out there pondering this issue, there is no solution to the so-called “alignment problem.” This should be instantly obvious to anyone who spends…
Man, God, and Machine
“Logic is to be conceived […] as the realm [Reich] of pure thought. This realm is truth as it is without veil and absolutely. It can therefore…
Has Science Evolved into Technology?
Has science evolved into technology? This question deserves unpacking. “Science” here refers to a modern variant of rationalism, the “autonomous” one that Edmund Husserl bashed as a…
The Essence of Technology
“Men first sense what is necessary; then they attend to what is useful; afterwards, they notice what is comfortable; further on, they take delight in pleasure; thereafter,…
Values vs. Virtue
Today’s discourse is all about values. We shouldn’t obey certain laws or enforce certain policies because they are against “one’s values” the common saying goes. We send…
Digital Devils and (Chat) GPT-3
“The Robots exact a tribute—a certain tithe of our humanity—to do commerce with them” Prometheus casts an ambiguous figure among the shades of mythic history. While…
What is Perversion?
Etymologically, perversion designates an overturning, a thorough subversion with respect to a proper telos, a natural course and end. To pervert an art is to turn it…
The Despotic Pitfalls of Technology
Technology is often conceived as an extension of our body. A misleading conception. Consider our cameras: they are not mere or innocent extensions of our eyes. They…
The Problems of Technology as God
In our Age of Information, we are bombarded daily by answers forged to distract us from natural questions, questions we are born to ask. Technology does not…
The Knowledge and Virtue of the Future
The notion of a necessary connection between knowledge and virtue is all but alien to our times. The Machiavellian revolution and the “inversion of values” it involved…
Are We Doomed to a Rationalist, Loveless, Future? A Review of Harris Bor’s “Staying Human”
Harris Bor. Staying Human: A Jewish Theology for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. Science Fiction is the dominant cultural mythos of…
The Internet Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fuzzy Logic World
Adam Douglas wrote one of the humor masterpieces of all time with his book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the title of this article is…
Personal computer algorithms: Revisiting the Modern Gnosticism thesis (part iii)
Computers are getting better all the time, right! Well, nooo. Not really. At least, not for me, and in more ways than one. Before going further, two…
Moribund Algorithm, or “How to learn the magic word that evokes the shape of things to come?” On Modalities of Sorcery
Operations with Algorithms are at the heart of disease prevention technologies. This is a follow-up article of those published in the 20 September, 13 October, and 6…
Irrational and stressful algorithms: Revisiting the Modern Gnosticism thesis through liminal incommensurability (part i)
The idea that the modern world, in particular modern knowledge and science, represents a victory of ancient Gnostic views, branded as heresies in the Christian era, is…