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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XI. Why were we caught off-guard by AI?

A portrait of Tycho Brahe, Royal Astrologist of Danemark, by Stable Diffusion

Why were we caught off-guard by AI?

Despite artificial intelligence having been a field of research since…

November 2, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. X. The rise of the LLMs

Portrait of Geoffrey Hinton by Stable Diffusion

The rise of the LLMs

This is the way things stood before some recent events that led Geoffrey Hinton to make a disturbing statement. Geoffrey Hinton is the mastermind behind Large Language Models such as…

October 31, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. V. The New Testament: Reciprocity

Illustration by DALL·E

The New Testament: Reciprocity

In the East, with totemism, which Durkheim and Mauss identified with China’s thought of archaic times there is no crucial divide between Man, the chosen creature in the eyes of God, and the other…

October 26, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. IV. The Old Testament: Creation

Illustration by DALL·E (+Animé)

The Old Testament: Creation

For almost two millennia the dominant view of humankind in the West was grounded in the biblical account: Adam and Eve being made in the likeness of God, while nature was defined by God…

October 25, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West

Illustration by DALL·E of Marco Polo discovering China

East and West

In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range…

October 24, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”

Illustration by DALL·E from the text

Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’

Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things…

October 20, 2024
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?

Illustration by DALL·E (+Michelangelo) (+PJ)

I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?

If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity…

October 19, 2024