As it happens, I just the other day read an essay by N.S. Lyons about C.S. Lewis ('The Abolition of Man') and a number of people who are called 'transhumanists' (but from months ago)-- I guess I had seen the term before but hadn't paid any attention. Good Lord, those people are seriously anticipating the day when human beings disappear altogether, replaced by what I guess is meant by 'AI': it was briefly frightening. It puts the 'anti-natalists' and associated nonsense into a different perspective.
Two thoughts on the "babies and forgiveness" section:
- In general, as I have heard a psychologist say, male perversion is in the domain of sexual activity, and female perversion is in the domain of reproduction. Is the "new puritanism" correlated with society becoming more female-centered?
- This "new puritanism" seems to me to be a relatively recent phenomenon. I am thinking of the "Saved!" movie of 2004, in which Christians were portrayed as the bigots, and the all-inclusive diverse crowd welcomed the pregnant teenager.
One thing with chatbots is, if you look at the quality of the average tweet, it doesn't say much for human intelligence. But a reason to be very skeptical about them is that they're still, apparently, not creative or inventive.
As it happens, I just the other day read an essay by N.S. Lyons about C.S. Lewis ('The Abolition of Man') and a number of people who are called 'transhumanists' (but from months ago)-- I guess I had seen the term before but hadn't paid any attention. Good Lord, those people are seriously anticipating the day when human beings disappear altogether, replaced by what I guess is meant by 'AI': it was briefly frightening. It puts the 'anti-natalists' and associated nonsense into a different perspective.
[https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/a-prophecy-of-evil-tolkien-lewis]
Two thoughts on the "babies and forgiveness" section:
- In general, as I have heard a psychologist say, male perversion is in the domain of sexual activity, and female perversion is in the domain of reproduction. Is the "new puritanism" correlated with society becoming more female-centered?
- This "new puritanism" seems to me to be a relatively recent phenomenon. I am thinking of the "Saved!" movie of 2004, in which Christians were portrayed as the bigots, and the all-inclusive diverse crowd welcomed the pregnant teenager.
One thing with chatbots is, if you look at the quality of the average tweet, it doesn't say much for human intelligence. But a reason to be very skeptical about them is that they're still, apparently, not creative or inventive.