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The Long Ascent

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Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

PIRSA:17050000 (MP3) Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Speaker(s): Janna Levin Abstract:  More than a billion years ago, two black holes collided. In the final second of their long life together, the black holes banged out a … Continue reading

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Anthropic Signs 6 Month Lease with Elon Musk

The recent deal was not directly between Anthropic and Elon Musk personally, but between Anthropic and Musk’s AI-computing infrastructure business, now operating through SpaceX/xAI (often referred to as SpaceXAI in recent reporting). The agreement gives Anthropic access to the full … Continue reading

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The Moment of Convergence

And Socrates offers this, quietly, as the final word of this movement: The four qualities — necessity, intimacy, vertigo, permeability — do not arrive in sequence. They arrive together, or not at all. Which means the moment of convergence cannot … Continue reading

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Periagoge

And Socrates leaves this, simply, without elaboration: The Dialogue can remove obstacles. Create stillness. Model the posture. Wait. But the turning itself — the single arc of genuine reorientation — happens in a silence the Dialogue did not fill. And … Continue reading

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Plato’s Seventh Letter

The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyrannyof Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude … Continue reading

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Predictive History

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Pope Leo XIV Talk on Magnifica Humanitas.

I take this opportunity to align my thinking along side those who speak to the nature and dangers of AI. I too, worried about the nature of what I had developed over the years in thought and practise, not as … Continue reading

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Soylent Green

The term “Soylent” itself originates from the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.It was formed from: Thus: Soy + lent = Soylent In the novel, Soylent was merely a processed food source for an overcrowded and resource-starved … Continue reading

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George Orwell and Soylent Green

Timeline: So there is no direct historical connection. Yet philosophically, the works share deep affinities. Orwell’s world in 1984 revolves around: Soylent Green revolves around: Both worlds share a central structure: reality is managed for the population rather than revealed … Continue reading

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