Sublime

liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely; secondly, that humans will still be valuable collectively, but they will lose their individual authority, and will instead be managed by external algorithms.

Social Darwinism and neo-liberal meritocracy create the impression that they favour the individual who is naturally the best. He or she would have made it anyway; we are just giving nature a helping hand to speed the ‘fittest’ up the ladder. But the reality is somewhat different. Both social Darwinists and meritocratists themselves determine who is

To connect Taylor with Ehrenberg, what modernity considers to be a mental ailment is always connected to its ethic, to its assertion of what is good.

He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.

AIs operate in the social sphere in ways more similar to those of states and corporations than robots or marionettes. Therefore, it becomes useful to consider them in the tradition of political thought that deals with collective personhood, in works such as Hobbes’s Leviathan, Plato’s Republic, or How Institutions Think by Mary Douglas.

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I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.