Vibes Are Not Enough

I’m betting on people. I’m betting that people will refuse to abandon their souls to the machine, and refuse to forget who they truly are. People just need, in Plato’s words, anamimneskein —”to be reminded.” And that’s a process that is best done in genuine encounters.

The time for a broadened, or expanded, sense of reason—far broader than generative A.I. will ever achieve—is upon us. It’s time to shed the shackles of secular humanism and walk boldly into a future where the human spirit is not contained in a Twitter-shaped box in which Lex Fridman wonders out loud whether or not he’s real or an avatar.

we live in a world where even the most intimate realities are mediated to us through the content strategies of others.