Jack Albins

Immanentizing the eschaton since 1789.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Certain questions about who or what one is can bring this out in a man. Puritanical how? Denial of the body and its necessities?

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Sure, that is perhaps not the key criterion—though it does raise the important question of the philosopher’s relation to morality. But what is a philosopher in your view?

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Of course. It’s my hypothesis though regarding what the Platonic Socrates, made beautiful and young is—a comic presentation of the impossible as possible.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ I always took these as instances of the irony of a Socrates made beautiful and young—of one, let us also remember, who was apparently immune to effects of wine.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Pusillanimity is indeed an uncommon vice—perhaps there is pride in that. Would a philosopher blush at such words though?

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Said “philosopher” would surely be moved by your generous confidence or flattery, while thinking it tragically (or comically) misplaced.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ I meant to say not that the philosopher’s isolation itself is a sign of the ugliness, as if his integration into the city could make it beautiful. Rather that since the beauty others see would be a question to him, he can indeed never be integrated. As for hope—does he hope?

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ I wonder whether or to what extent this has changed since the time of these men. I would hope that it hasn’t. But the leveling effects of modernity should not be underestimated.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Conspicuously absent: the American soul! (No argument that Canada is soulless.)

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ I have questions about this “Good” you speak of. What is it? Where is it? How is it?

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

Civilizational suicide. Imagine seeing the third-worldification of your noble patrimony and saying YES, MORE, this is GOOD and RIGHT. Unprecedented levels of depravity and self-hatred.

[ʜᴇʀQʟᴇs ᴇɴɢ @Herqles_eng]

🇫🇷 | Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the French ‘La France insoumise’ far-left party.

“We need municipal elections that can demonstrate the ability of our lists to embody the new France, the France of the Great Replacement.”

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Possibly you’ll get your wish: https://t.co/06dSgzdaWQ

[Mickey from Arcadia @mickeyhardy]

Anthropic just filed to go public.

Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions:

1.) AI could cause human extinction.

2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors.

3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown.

4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception.

5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior.

6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions.

7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth.

8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts.

9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control.

10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm.

These are disclosures from the company building the technology.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@sophianovo_ Perhaps the robots do indeed deserve to rule.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Exposing that it was a concerted and staged legal effort to change society is useful because it sheds light on things like gay couples showing up over and over to harass a guy in Colorado who doesn’t want to make a cake for a gay marriage today - with the goal of ruining him. Few people realize what happened with Parks wasn’t organic. There are a lot of people who think these things just happen, and everyone is a hero rather than an activist. If you know it’s activism it lets you think more clearly about whether the cause is worthy.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

This is what the Ivy League gives you today: two-bit mendacious imbeciles who equate deporting Haitians who recently flooded Ohio towns under specious asylum claims with the genocide of Jews, who were longstanding members of European communities.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

Behold the face of the end of civilization. When feminine feelings rule there is no room for the just duties of the citizen.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

@_MedGold And make taxpayers feed her? No. She can be food for others on their voyage to Liberia.

[Jack Albins @jackalbins]

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