"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." MLK Jr.
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Deep Blue beat the world chess champion and nobody cared. Because there's no money in intelligence. But there IS infinite money in irrational thinking, which is exactly what machine learning produces. We got the language of AI with the tech of advertising. And we wonder why the world is in chaos.
AI is less regulated than a loaf of bread.
The more we know, the more complex decisions become.
The internet answered โhow.โ
AI answered โwhat.โ
All that's left is to figure out โwhy.โ
Itโs just funny to me that serious people talk about AI-generated media so seriously when the most popular AI-generated media right now is sexy AI fruit people parodying Love Island and AI spaghetti people getting boiled alive with their kids
AI deletes knowledge. It remixes, summarizes, and overwrites online information. Errors get repeated, sources disappear, and original context gets lost. It's not like the industrial revolution, it's like burning the Library of Alexandria.
For all our food innovation, from Michelin stars to ultra-processed everything, weโve never made anything as complex as a raspberry.
#AI is the artificial sweetener of thinking. We invented aspartame thinking we could cheat the system. No sugar, but all the reward. Instead, it gave us obesity and cancer. We're doing it again.
"AI" sounds like you're mid-sneeze and gave up
I wouldn't try to outrun a train. Why do I need to outrun AI?
Words are only symbols, and that's the limit of LLMs. They can arrange language beautifully, yet they never touch the emotion that gives it life. When humans understand one another, it isnโt the words we grasp, but the feeling beneath them.
If we believe machines will save us, we must also believe something is broken in us. That we are flawed beyond repair. That we are sinners in need of correction.
#AI isnโt a story about innovation.
#AI is a story about original sin.
Superintelligence should not be a cold mind humming in a server farm. True intelligence is restraint. It is listening before acting. It is knowing that not everything that can be done should be done.
Uncertainty isnโt a flaw to be engineered away. Itโs the space where courage is found, faith takes root, and creativity begins. A world that predicts everything leaves no room for surprise. And without surprise, life loses its spark. โจ
Every sunrise is a reminder that we get to try again. No future is inevitable. The path of the digital age is ours to shape, and every choice we make, every algorithm, every design, every interaction, can still steer it toward fairness, empathy, and humanity.
The family was the original social network. Its encryption came from shared meals, inside jokes, and years of showing up.
Now the nuclear family is atomizing, pulled apart by screens. In this world, reclaiming the dinner table becomes a radical act of love.
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LLMs are mirrors of our collective past, but they lack a horizon. Only a human being can look at the world as it is and say, "Wow, it could be better."
In the face of hatred, Dr. King inspired us to build a society filled with hope, kindness, and love for our neighbor.
Together, we must continue to work to enact his vision of equal opportunity for all.
Uncertainty isnโt a flaw to be engineered away. Itโs the space where courage, faith, and creativity are born. Itโs where we feel most human. A world that predicts everything leaves no room for surprise. And without surprise, there is no life. โจ
Productivity is important, but presence is intelligence.
Compassion is a superintelligence all on its own.
"The Singularity" is just the "Rapture" for people who use Linux.
Once someone wins Monopoly, thereโs nothing left to play. You have to reset the board.
How can we be confident in AI when no one can actually define what AI is?
Are we afraid of AI, or are we still afraid of God?
every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
Jacob Elordi was asked about AI by Vanity Fair:
โI just have no interest in it at all, because itโs so f***ing boring [โฆ] If itโs your interest, go nuts in your garage; play around, build a robot. But as far as Iโm concerned, I would much rather kiss on the beach, & read a novel, & be sunburnt.โ