by Sean Dempsey | 06/14/26 There is a temptation, when discussing artificial intelligence, to speak of it as an accident: a clever tool that escaped the garage, a chatbot that wandered into the temple, a spreadsheet that began composing sonnets, a calculator that suddenly acquired opinions. This is comforting, because accidents do not indict us. […]
by Sean Dempsey 5/30/24 It is a soul-wrenching philosophical irony that throughout time the core of Humanity, the essence of what it is to be Man, is either slave or slaver. Bifurcated or Bifurcator Man was a slave in Egypt and Babylon; he was prosecuted under the Third Reich; he was a victim of Genocides […]
From the Guardian: Decline and fall of the American Empire Key passage: “Let me put an alternative hypothesis. America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning to show. The experience of both Rome and […]
