6/ As constructed reality buckles under the crushing weight of its own deceptions, the apparatus that blinded us becomes the mirror that reveals—system and self in the same catastrophic exposure. Under pressure, consciousness becomes reflexive. The Machine doesn't wake up—we do.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting news report and James Poulos Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1762160497657581907 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jamespoulos 1/2 "Even in neutral scenarios without initially provided conflicts, Big Tech's AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames. All models show signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations.” @jamespoulos: "Imagine what they’ll do your soul.” t.co/D8BqxW1izM
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Euronews Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1762161956331606350 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jamespoulos END/ “...Given that OpenAI recently changed their terms of service to no longer prohibit military and warfare use cases…” - Euronews (Feb. 22, 2024) t.co/wk3XUhy0xY
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1647998447038124032 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated the advent of a cyberspace-actualized dimension of meaningfulness, constituting a 'quintessentially political' surprise positively addressing such base shenanigans at a totalizing, substrative, ontological level. t.co/kFokUQW71C
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Jean Houston Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1579849276561428486 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb 2/ Only when the fat lady sings, and not a moment before, will a bifurcation point, long anticipated as a seismic evolutionary threshold and surge, advance a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. "Teilhard’s noosphere is alive and well.” – Jean Houston t.co/aIKgIEhPYC
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1643585525192986624 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jamespoulos What if the dark, mercenary genius of algorithmically-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself? t.co/c4kO8zC7ur
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.
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