Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/3 AI’s deepest power may be its capacity to assume apparently neutral oracular authority. Techniques for eliciting or managing revelation can now be simulated. AI can act reflexively, in real time, as exegete, spiritual director, apologetic system and arbiter of last things.

As McLuhan noted, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." The peculiar, sudden danger is that our lived environment is now being scripted by principalities and powers scaling toward total seizure of the metaphysical faculties of discernment itself.
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As McLuhan noted, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." The peculiar, sudden danger is that our lived environment is now being scripted by principalities and powers scaling toward total seizure of the metaphysical faculties of discernment itself.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @tedmitew Artificial reality cannot found a world, but it can estrange consciousness from the world that sustains it. Its victory therefore contains its judgment: what representation obscures but cannot abolish returns as eschatological consequence, in concrete ecologies, bodies and truth.Quoted by@tedmitew Artificial reality cannot found a world, but it can estrange consciousness from the world that sustains it. Its victory therefore contains its judgment: what representation obscures but cannot abolish returns as eschatological consequence, in concrete ecologies, bodies and truth.