Finished reading: Night by Elie Wiesel 📚
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If you read old novels — as I do — you’ll occasionally come across a certain phrase: “That’s past praying for” — meaning “That’s impossible, even for God.” I’d suggest that you never use that phrase. Better a fool’s hope than no hope. Better to say, along with Dr. Moncrieff, “Lord, when is it too late for Thee, or what is too hard for Thee?”
Finished reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison 📚 My oh my!
Interestingly enough, the insertion of an ordinary language interface between ourselves and the digitized collective unconscious makes it more obscure and inscrutable to us. The chatbot interface reconfigures our agency in navigating the collective unconscious by, in a manner of speaking, becoming an anti-therapist leading us away from self-knowledge and insight, however disturbing or startling, toward a comfortable and soothing encounter. It offers a false clarity and lulls us into self-satisfaction, guarding us from self-doubt and from lingering too long in an awareness of our ignorance or in a place of troubling uncertainty. It veils the tangled forest of human experience and lights an artificially clear path for us toward the promise of knowledge and wisdom. In this way, though, it sinks us gently but decisively back into the unconscious. Perhaps this is the root of AI psychosis.
Finished reading: The Narnian by Alan Jacobs 📚
Finished reading: The Republic by Plato 📚
Finished reading: When the Sun Goes Down by Emilia Ilieva and Waveney Olembo 📚
Finished reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
Currently reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
Finished reading: What is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert 📚 So, Henry, what is the Gospel?!