Category Archives: AI

Canada AI Strategy Overview

Platohagel: Canada announces its own AI strategy. Will it include ChatGPT or Anthropic, Meta Ai, Grok or Google Ai? Socrates: Based on what the Canadian government has released so far, the answer appears to be yes—but indirectly. Canada’s new “AI … Continue reading

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Palantir Together with AI for All in Canada

Platohagel: Will Ai For All include Palantir? Socrates: The short answer is: possibly, but not explicitly. As of today, the federal AI for All strategy does not identify Palantir as a preferred partner or official participant. The published strategy emphasizes … Continue reading

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Unity as a Principal of Being

“Interlocutor: Consider, my dear friend, whether every multitude must not partake of unity. For if a thing were not one in some respect, how could it even be counted among beings? And if unity is prior to number, perhaps the … Continue reading

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Monad

The idea that the point becomes the circle appears repeatedly in ancient philosophical, mathematical, and mystical traditions, though not usually in the literal language “the point becomes the circle.” In Plato Plato does not explicitly state that a point becomes … Continue reading

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The Center and the Sea

See Also: The House That Memory Keeps

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The Long Ascent

See Also: The House That Memory Keeps

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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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