Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@tenshi_anna The case can be made that Negarestani's concept of intelligence as a normative achievement—built and maintained through costly, friction-laden, mutually accountable practices—offers a precise secular cognate to an eschatological conception of what trust habitats are and require.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Feb 2026

Each sentence may make sense, but it seems to me AI introduces fluency without essence, certainty without grounding, at a scale and velocity where the shared architecture of knowing, meaning and being, the very landscape of experience, is compromised. A civilizational betrayal.

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Quoted by@LMSacasas In ways still largely unperceived, AI saws through the epistemic beam on which the whole order stands.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @suzania McLuhan averred that any technology, pushed to extremes, generates the opposite of its promise. The mediated abstraction of truth is no exception. At their limit, anti-incarnational powers no longer secure reality but sever themselves from it, their logic consumed from within.Quoted by@suzania McLuhan averred that any technology, pushed to extremes, generates the opposite of its promise. The mediated abstraction of truth is no exception. At their limit, anti-incarnational powers no longer secure reality but sever themselves from it, their logic consumed from within.