@StewartRiley14@Dbob_77@leo3linbeck@Devon_Eriksen_@FromKulak Again, Lewis is always writing primarily to the faithful, or in other words, “those with ears to hear,” or those not captured by their own capacity for discrimination. As trans-humanists and post-moderns drift further into the void of knowledge, the Pope restates the point.
@Dbob_77@leo3linbeck@Devon_Eriksen_@FromKulak Post-modern thinkers are obsessed with their own sense of discrimination and thus, evil (but never good, for other reasons). Yet, there is a rich symbolic, philosophical history of thought. Don’t abandon it!
@Dbob_77@leo3linbeck@Devon_Eriksen_@FromKulak Great question! The symbol of satan, lucifer, diablo extends back 2.5k yrs, while the serpent motif goes back much further than that. The Greek ‘diabolos’ means “the one who throws across or apart.” The discriminator. Milton, Blake, Jung, and May all wrote on this extensively.
@Dbob_77@leo3linbeck@Devon_Eriksen_@FromKulak The faithful includes the open and seeking. The ‘satanic’ intellect is closed, critical, and negating. Appropriate for certain validation processes, eternally destructive in moral (irrational) endeavors.
@oneseabasket@TCzajka These people don’t believe in a soul even abstractly and generally hate anyone who does because they themselves don’t possess an individuated spirit. Thus flippant, disrespectful remarks.
We didn’t go back to the moon because it’s not meaningful. This upsets some people.
@benjamin_horne The new job creation will come when everyone stops foaming at the mouth and realizes they’re going to need professionals to clean up the biggest shit show in history. This will make them very ornery because they hate their fellow man, but they will at least be not-ill.
@rationalaussie The entropy of any system of which AI is a generative, agentic participant will degrade to the point that it is regulated out of any serious discipline.
This will happen soon, but not soon enough to prevent a very big mess.
@Dbob_77@leo3linbeck@Devon_Eriksen_@FromKulak The proposed fourth leg here - Legend - is external to the original premise. Lewis is always writing primarily to the faithful. You can’t reason your way to it; it’s a choice.
That’s the whole point, dorks.
Fascinating mind virus ripping through parts of open source right now. Listen, the code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code, reject bad code. You don't need a fucking code of conduct or contributor covenant for that!
@dhh What of engineers responsible for critical systems governed under SOC2, ISO27001, and CJIS? They’re luddites as well? Change management policies should be abandoned and we’re just to accept randomized regression dictating the state of … everything?
@tobias_petry Not only is the AI bubble going to burst, but all at once, SaaS is going to begin returning multiples at transaction again. Except vibe SaaS whose valuation will take a haircut after due diligence. The foaming at the mouth will stop, and some people will look very stupid.
@dhh@MagcDev Inevitably we see the rise and backlash of the proles. This time again, like all other times. Power through coercion or force, it makes no difference.
I’m no communist, but if their ideology surprises you or seems irrational, you’re not really that smart.
@dhh@MagcDev Optimism is better than the alternative, to be sure. But capital allocators function primarily through power, not optimism. This is why “corporate culture” efforts disgust everyone at the median, who’s smart enough to intuit the ignorance of their superiors.