Daniel Rubio

Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Metaphysics, Ethics, Probability, Agency, Religion. All takes are my own. He/Him.

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By traditional rules, Christa Pike has been declared innocent by the gods and should be set free

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@NevinClimenhaga Alex Pruss and I joked about this at a Rutgers summer school in 2022.

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My suggestions for fortifying the journal system in the face of AI submissions.

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@StefanFSchubert Their thing is avoiding false positives. That means there are a decent number of false negatives.

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@freganmitts B has all the best parts (and half of Ohio).

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@agraybee No one watches House for the medical plots

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I decided to join red button/blue button discourse

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I am a philosopher of religion (and kind of AI-skeptical at that), and none of the behavior in this post counts as worship as classically understood.

[roon @tszzl]

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it.

now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it

"If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply."
"we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us."

to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly

gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study

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“Keep your papist morality outta my war.”

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

JUST IN - Vatican should 'stick to matters of morality': US VP Vance

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@focusfronting At this point I usually just walk

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Now that we’re just ignoring emoluments… Pope for President?

[Socialists For Pritzker @PritzkerForPrez]

I’ve been afraid of this: he’s running

[Mr Pomble @realmrpomble]

The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there

[Alice @AliceFromQueens]

The enlightened MAGA view is that a citizen can exercise his First Amendment rights OR his Second Amendment rights.

If you try to exercise both at the same time, ICE has the right to kill you.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

JD Vance isn’t this stupid, so what he’s doing here is deliberate and evil.

You don’t just need “some kind of warrant” to enter a home. You need a warrant from the judiciary.

He knows this. He knows they’re breaking the law when they enter a home with an administrative warrant.

He uses the phrase “administrative law judges” to mislead.

An administrative warrant comes from DHS. They are writing their own “warrants,” which makes them no more valid under the Fourth Amendment than if a random person wrote on a piece of paper, “I can enter your house.”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

So many people quote the famous line from Thucydides - "The strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must" - and forget that the amoral imperialists who used that line in the end lost their war and their empire.

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New paper out in Nous