RT @nick_routledge: @tedmitew .@pauljpastor Above, @tedmitew describes two recent 'canonical' AI schemas (thrumming with eschatological dread) as last-ditch efforts to prevent civilizational meaning-collapse. I'd add: what appears as collapse is the in-breaking of a higher, Christic order of intelligibility.
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Hyperstition Rituals for the Unhuman Gods Anthropic’s Adolescence of Technology vs China’s Management of AI Anthropomorphism Teodor Mitew This is an implied recognition that culture is the primary operating system, upstream of the entirety of human existence, and AI is poised to become its compiler. The battle is not for control of matter, but for control of meaning. The fear revealed here is of a synthetic prophet, a sovereign machinic Archon that tells better mythical stories about our own existence, rugpulling the entire modern cognitive edifice and winning the future through memetic gravity. Yes, anon, this is pre-emptive synth djinn heresy control. Agreeing with Amodei, the Chinese state explicitly acknowledges that the most powerful AIs will invariably seek to conquer myth-making and eschatology. We are already in algo cargo cult territory, and no regulation can stop it. People are already falling in love with their models. Why wouldn’t they worship them?
@riyeff Every technology eventually forces two questions: what kind of humans are we becoming—and what do we believe truly matters? Ultimately, its deepest significance isn't what it does, but what it reveals: our desires, the limits of our stories, the orders we take for granted.
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