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what does it mean for a machine to be smart?
does it mean epic gaming?
smart is not intelligence but executive power
intelligence is not smart, it is discerning in setting apart and drawing together
hmm, gaming actually means joyfully active human communion, not athletic cogitative navigation through logical architecture
a highly intelligent machine would therefore be very good at discerning how best to draw human beings out of their brooding and embittered self-enclosures into joyfully active communion

we’re saved!
what? we’re actually doomed? super smart machines actually create games where they win and we lose and there’s nothing we can ever do about it?

sounds like a high stakes disagreement
our epic gamer machines should not be demons, gods, or angels but heroes about whom we happily sing
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An entire book could and should be written about this. The ongoing implosion of fantasy as the basis of identity is making people deeply neurotic, awkward, embattled, and ill, and we don’t even talk about it, much less dare to process it
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I see the problem of changing eras of communications technology has at last penetrated The Discourse today. If you care for some special clarity on the politics of twitter and radio, read on
We start with oral. (Quiet, you.) The alphabet makes mere content out of its new psychological and social context—think of Plato’s REPUBLIC, or Aristotle’s teachings on formal cause (important) written down.
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There is no way to classify this phantasmagoria as anything other than a desire to burn America’s regime down to the ground
Recognize this for what it is: a direct and total attack on the very foundation of the American theory of justice: equal protection of all under law in virtue of our equal humanity and equal citizenship
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