Monday, June 05, 2023

RWO Ralph Waldo Emerson > We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence | The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFrance

Through empirical observation of the natural world, Emerson believed, anyone could become “a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition”—finding agency, individuality, and wonder in a mechanized age. 

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IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

Hmmm..."naturalism at the center of intellectual life in a technologically chaotic age—guiding him, along with the collective of writers and radical thinkers known as transcendentalists, to a new spiritual belief system. 

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