Jordan Joseph Wales

Theologian. Patristics, Artificial Intelligence. BS Engjneering: MSc Cognitive Science; Dip., MTS, PhD Theology.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@AgustinLebron3 @emollick Lots of Syd Mead. Google him and you’ll see the resemblance immediately.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@_baklon @HannahGraceLong Yes that’s the case but the movie doesn’t see it that way because it’s from the point of view of a person who doesn’t actually have kids, or doesn’t have them factored into his/her universe—like Spielberg’s mom in The Fabelmans.

[Andrew Lynch @andrewglynch]

Men, if you feel like your life doesn’t have enough meaning and purpose, try my 3 step program for deep fulfilment:

1) have a child
2) take the child for a walk
3) on that walk, get a yourself a coffee and a breakfast bagel

[Andrew Lynch @andrewglynch]

if a toddler puts a sticker on you, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@HannahGraceLong Agreed. If the Fabelmans is an interpretive key, then close encounters both recapitulates his mother (Roy) while also reconciling his parents (computers and music) and giving the kid (also Roy) the attentive family he didn’t have. Going forth becomes going home.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@HannahGraceLong If we extend to a perhaps overblown degree the theme in the interview, Roy’s joining the aliens is perhaps young Spielberg’s desire to be taken up into a renewed family life constituted by the reconciliation of his own parents, who split during his childhood.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@HannahGraceLong If I recall correctly, Spielberg later said that he would never have written that ending after having children himself.

[Mr. Illinois @mr1llinois]

Here it is folks, the magnificent Mayan temple on Aurora’s Stolp island known as Elks Lodge 705 (now apartments). More pics below 🤩

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@iamwill I’m really happy about this!

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@emollick What was your prompt?

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@JohnNosta @OwenGregorian Wouldn’t you move the human toward the middle horizontally? If humans weren’t quite pattern based in their habits of thought, we’d need only a few seasons of psychotherapy to sort them out, rather than months or years.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@luusssso @pfau Would need power-washing every year to avoid looking like the several now-ugly malls and academic buildings in Scotland that were designed like that.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@xonkius @HSRdirector Aquinas taught a g at Lewis says. Domination by pleasure detached from communion, not pleasure itself, is the problem.

[Jordan Joseph Wales @JordanWales]

@JoshHochschild @KenGardner11 @FreyChristopher Final scene of Raiders? ;-)

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

@camhberg Nicely done. And I had a similar (though formulated somewhat differently) response to the encyclical's condemnation of slavery. Thanks!
https://t.co/iepDRqFiAT

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Yglesias is correct to urge ppl engaged in the A.I. consciousness debate to engage with the existing consciousness debate, daft to embrace Daniel Dennett thought, and wrong to imply that my religion automatically yields A.I.-consciousness nonbelief:
https://t.co/RcG9EpeX8N

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

The Roman Catholic Church is very obviously not "anti-AI"; it stands against a certain prevalent ideology which presupposes a view of the human person that is fundamentally materialist and ultimately atheistic. The vast majority of the media is looking for some "us vs them" headline to drive clicks, or some kind of political frame with which to understand an epistolary letter, and all of this is unhelpful.

What I am completely confident in is that in 10-20 years, I will live in a world completely dominated by AI—in some sense, I already do—and that the questions of what it means to be human, who is the human worker and what distinguishes him from the machine, and basic questions of human dignity, will be more important than ever, and the treatment of Magnifica Humanitas will only grow more important as time goes on.

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

I am very grateful to be in an academic field where quality written work is not merely content delivery, and can’t be replaced with summaries. It is worth reading, engaging with, and actively digesting, often by more writing. The “producing” and “consuming” of such work is intellectually nourishing, not mere busywork to be eliminated by labor-saving technology.

[Ethan Batraski @ethanjb]

When a measure becomes a target, it stops being useful 🔥 @MelMitchell1