13Oct 2026 by Post

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

Aeon, Arizona, artificial inteligence, computer scientists, COSM 2026, David Hume, Education, freedom, friendship, Hugging Face, human exceptionalism, Immanuel Kant, injustice, intelligence, large language models, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, optimisation, philosophers, philosophy, reality check, reason, Sasha Mudd, Scottsdale
Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Source
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20Sep 2026 by Post

Learning about Technology, and Relationships, from Wendell Berry

artificial inteligence, arts, Books, chatbots, Claude, community, computers, Counterpoint Press, dependence, ecological health, economic justice, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, ethics, family, Harper’s Magazine, land, machines, nature, peace, political honesty, pollution, prosocial intentions, relationships, Tanya Berry, Technology, thinking, typewriter, water usage, Wendell Berry, work
Berry describes the beautiful working relationship he had with his wife, Tanya. She typed his work on a Royal standard typewriter. Source
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11Sep 2026 by Post

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, Computational Sciences, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, Science Reporting, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Source
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31Aug 2026 by Post

Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

9/11, artificial inteligence, arts, Benjamin Franklin, bioethics, bombing, Chicago, Christianity, Chronicles, disaster preparedness, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, district attorney, Fiction, Geoffrey Simmons, George Whitefield, Hiroshima, Hollywood, Intelligent Design, John Zmirak, Just War, Manhattan Project, Michael Crichton, Michael Fassbender, morality, near-death experiences, nuclear physicists, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer’s Demon, philosophy, physicians, Robert Oppenheimer, tactical nuclear weapons, Technology, The Odyssey, thrillers, World War II, Worldview
As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Source
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23Aug 2026 by Post

In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

AI necklace, Andrew McDiarmid, anti-social media, artificial inteligence, Computational Sciences, emailing, friend (tech device), friends, human interaction, humans, new york, New York Post, nightmares, personality, Silicon Valley, smartphones, Social media, startups, statistics, subway ads, surveillance, Technology, texting, The Atlantic, voice
The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Source
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31Jul 2026 by Post

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, Books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, Technology, wisdom
This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Source
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10Jul 2026 by Post

On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, computing, consciousness, intelligence, Intelligent Design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, Technology, UnHerd
If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Source
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12Mar 2026 by Post

Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

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AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God. Source
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26Feb 2026 by Post

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, Computational Sciences, computer code, Conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, human exceptionalism, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, Reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words
The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Source
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