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The arrival of new gods does not coincide with clear vision.

An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word.

Remember: All Roads Lead to AI Accelerationism! Don’t Be Caught Flatfooted!

Artificial intelligence gets the best of me most days. It demands too much. It takes a profession that I love and turns it into a soul-crushing curse.

Most current iterations and applications of AI in the form of LLMs actually turn humans into reverse centaurs.

Leo calls us to find meaning in the mundane aspects of human life and care. In doing so, he articulates the centrality of limits in the human experience.

The holiness of the world: that is the heart of the matter. The doors of perception must be cleansed to see the holiness again.

It may be time for willing churches to begin devoting more resources to the active pursuit of remaining human.

This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.

Well, what would the Amish do, I wondered?

Magnifica Humanitas encourages us to not give up on changing the world

AI may be perceived as an “immaterial” technology, but it totally depends on data centers that have intense physical demands.

By heightening emotion, hatred deepens the personhood of both teachers and students.

Generative ai systems, like drugs, impact cognition directly.

“Relationships” between human beings and machines are not real relationships because machines cannot relate to the experience of living a human life.

Make sourdough: as an act of love for your body and your friends and family, and as a remedy against the ills of non-embodied life.

My real fear is not so much that the Internet makes us bad readers, but that it makes us bad writers.

What will it take to sustain the remnants of a contemporary republic of letters on the margins of a public square blasted by machine-speak?

Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.

Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.

We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.

The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.

Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.

In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.