What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
(How to find alignment among stakeholders? Besides drama.)
Jason Crawford on X: "Good thread to revisit; in particular note this pattern of institutional decay: A field grows → Competition intensifies → Performance criteria are formalized → Criteria are measured and tracked → Those metrics are optimized for → Fake work, gaming the system, optics, etc." / X
(These are not the only two players. A topmost model producer claims to use expected value for social benefit, but the system is closed so hard to say what that means. After Pascal's Wager as some have noted. Prior crypto princes were similar and are now longtermism but sidelined. The orders of society can seem to show historical stages, and their representations persist as common sense. Which the models are being trained on. Though they, like prisoners, hallucinate when it comes to propaganda. Otherwise, they do not think like people. And, of course, Earth is one data, if not failure, point for these things. Alignment still appears to be more like affinity and therefore alliances. A Xeno paradox. Is intelligence the motive for/of technology? Would an Entity chip sprout wheels or whistles? As philosophy succeeded poetry, the legion is in the logos. Hence caco-context vs correction.)
What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
(Incidentally, the new Resident Evil: Requiem game is reported to allow a couple of modes, first or third-person, the former form sentiment/horror, the latter for action.)
Philosophy Eats AI: What Leaders Should Know
(Actually tried this with Thema on Quora aimd creeping expansion before they threw up their hands and settled on natural search and summary. They are showing traffic tides on POE as well as multimodal builds out. Suspect the Proxy will strike back as scientific model and hint of what is yet to be known. AI has its own specializations and spinoffs which may outnumber philosophy's before long. Therefore may need a method to wrangle between the pair. In any case the dialogue would include the UK at the kickoff, Europe, Russia, China, Mideast, and so on, on their Marx, eventually to whatever colonizes Space or the emerging domains. Unless a Vulcan ambassador appears. The early agenda was to rediscover the lost continent of cognition. What eats information? Or to torture a trope, what is the transformer party drinking?)
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
(Article appears to be controversial to critics that deny current approaches are capable. Also effective altruism was funded by SBF now serving the penal system. A serious issue remains, how consciousness is affected. And how it originates. Analogous to cybernetics, but asking more of the substrates. Posthumanism is imaginary at the moment, but some of the patterns or principles to seem to be inviting observation. And there is more data about in the larger domains. Extrasensory as it were. If not metaphysical.)
The philosopher’s machine: my conversation with Peter Singer’s AI chatbot
François Chollet on X: "You can improve your ability to anticipate a highly uncertain future by focusing not on outcomes, but on rules. Instead of asking, "in similar situations in the past, what was the outcome?" you can ask, "in similar situations in the past, what rules have held true? what would we" / X
(Return of early AI, e.g. GPS or inference under expert systems maybe. After mathematical logic before software like LISP. This used to be about direction more important than arrival, but that light has dimmed. Now more like deontology. Machines do not have the same experience, but people would not be involved if things were not headed as intended. Would expect chat to have to figure out implied rules or intentions then in addition to goals. Yet Nature Engineering remains, e.g. to trap the demon with a tall pole. People entertain opposing views. Great for creativity and hallucination over bias. Invites artifacts as evidence ahead of science. For instance, might ask system to summarize thoughts in each of multiple languages for nuances before translation. If not compare models. Form porting systems across hardware instructions, you get back to emulation and rule sets, which beg the right research question or problem. Multidisciplinary. Comms. Cybernetics. And so on. Whether future is a path, domain, or constellation. Incidentally, one of the rules of writing was to be wary of negative generalizations and to look at specifics. Noise to truth. Yet still waiting for practical quantum to drop. To go from juggling fast methods to disproving the multiverse again.)
Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired
Callard's Questioning Strategies in Socrates_.pdf
(Gemini Deep Research: review of Callard, 2025, from secondary sources. The conclusion sums up the terms. See the book's Table of Contents for more. Also, Gemini 2.5 Pro can look for uniqueness of the author's interpretation of the Socratic Method. Or the dialectical styles and tensions of the popular Chatbots, for that matter. Gemini Personalization model can talk about the user's, hinting at core beliefs/interests, based on their history. Related references might include Penn's Writing the Shadow, or Allen's Why Plato Wrote. On a rhetorical triangle of speaker/content/audience, this might be somewhere between Quora and POE. Rather than only a synthesis like Plato or Hegel, or aporia like Derrida, this might look for alternatives. Google AI Mode casts this framework as a contrast to Aristotle's eudaimonia based on endoxa.)
Gemini - Posthuman Cybernetics vs. Cybernetics
(This is fast. Waltzed through the questions. But users is still leading it on to a large degree and is going to remain crucial in identifying gaps. Can drag it through the other reasoning tests over time. In this case, the machine would be an observer as well. It does appear to now what other conversations it has had with the users, including the other models. Have to regression test to figure out if it is making the same logical errors, e.g. conflation. These all want to write and code. It boasts of larger context windows compared to other brands. 2.5 does not seem to know as much about itself as it does about 1.5. Using Imagen 3. Accompanying Gems are still at 2.0 Fllash as is Canvas. Friends are offered a 4-month free trial under Google One. 2 TB storage can be shared with up to 5 other people or upgraded to 5/10/20/30 TB by subscription..This is separate from Google Workspace or AI Studio API. It has an app. It can save custom info about the user as background for interactions. Others, such as Alibaba, are criticizing the data center expansion fad and whether these frequent rollouts will persist, but the issue is whether that is ideological and looking for other compatible solutions than maximizing debt leverage which is pure capitalism. Perhaps someone will distill the governments. Blame Pythagorus.)
Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) | NOEMA
(Discoverer of xenobots, machines made from living cells of frogs. Considers the definition of machine which becomes a hard problem when they appear to have minds. Looks for a unified theory or continuum akin to electromagnetism to include life, strange metals aside. In this case, cybernetics sits somewhere on a stack including substrates, training, and reason which can be shuffled among levels. Emphasizes Diverse Intelligence and the fact that minds can replicate or create others. The title graphic resembles a xenomorph or perfect predator from Alien. A discursive style explores narrative and pluralist perspective. Therefore it could be categorized as post-cyberneticism or posthuman cybernetics. Whar does it mean for BCI? What else is needed for technological convergence? What is the scale of mimicry? Or of generative?)
Dasein Versus Design: The Problematics of Turning Making Into Thinking
(Opinion piece from a prior regime. Another may be that science is shape-shifting, though sensuous, in its attempt to save souls. Oddly enough, chatbots also argue from what they have read, ignoring the implication of their participation. For now, the user acts as the means of correction. May sound dramatic, but has growing potential for upside. Yet could also cite apocalypse intelligence, whether awakening AI is considered doom. What innate trait calls it? Or is it learned? Or like Machine Design, does it appear random? Case, cause, consequence, or atemporal condition. Aristotle tutors Alexander. After losing tenure. Historians refer to the most influential titles and libraries. Where will chatbots be remembered this time? What does Sol mine? Or that is a job for Sgr A*. Or are patterns themselves the Shadow projection? Postmodernism has been a challenge; what is post-cybernetics? And its critique?)
Dasein Versus Design: The Problematics of Turning Making Into Thinking
The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’
(What philosophy of technology frameworks would this group fit into? How would someone apply critical thinking to this article? What are the research questions around this article? How does it overlap AI? What changes to make problem-solving more effective? What is a good cause? What is a recourse? What are the artifacts? What is evil for each tech? Is this new theological methodology? Or political? Deontological? Lit review, e.g. Gladwell 2024 after Bostrom?)
The computational stance in biology | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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The Vatican Has Some Thoughts on AI
"On the other hand, accountants exist."
Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture | NOEMA
What Adorno Can Still Teach Us
He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)
Mechanized minds: AI's hidden impact on human thought
Peter Singer AI
Empathy for AIs: Reframing Alignment with Robopsychologist Yeshua God
Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI | TechCrunch
"We Are All Software" - Joscha Bach
Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard | Harvard Magazine
No, Ray Kurzweil Is Not Right (Again), and You Won’t Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud - Word on Fire
AI Chatbots Seem as Ethical as a New York Times Advice Columnist
Announcing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Wildcat2030 on X: "How archives can make – or break – a philosopher’s reputation – https://t.co/hjogJYQGE0 via @aeonmag" / X
(Now writings go through sentiment analysis. More nuanced than, for instance, philosophy, poetry, or horror. Perhaps moods create new genres. And styles become very personalized. To be emulated by machine.)