Can we build an Activist AI?

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by micahwhite • 12 months ago

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joules77• 12 months ago

The struggle is not just for regime change, but for the rebirth of Belief—a reminder that the “beautyful ones” have yet to arrive precisely because they have yet to be imagined and fought for

Rebirth of Belief is the language of religion. It's what religions work on everyday. But few people like to look at what they have learnt through centuries of trial and error. Or more importantly how they have survived the rise and fall of one Regime after another.

The novel is a call to revolutionary integrity when external victories feel hollow. How do we nurture the inner refusal—the keeping clean in a dirty world—that must precede any true transformation?

This is what Priest are trained to do. Look up the syllabus in a seminary and how long the training takes (there are no short cuts). The answers for these questions are already there. They use the same language of "formation" and ask the same questions.

They are grounding everything in a belief that there is some thing much larger than them. That is what they hold on too when the going gets tough. They are taught through philosophy more than theology the human mind is a big mess of competing instincts and thought. The only way to deal with such an imperfect system is not through clever gimmicks but with love, compassion, empathy, forgiveness etc. Its very hard to do without believing in something much larger than self especially as group size gets larger.

So one modern Philosopher after anther has shown wrt the "Secular Age" (Charles Taylor et al), this grounding is hard to pull off when Attention is scattered, Distractions are infinite, Communities fragment with every new temptation or idea that enters the story etc etc without looking at what Religions have learnt.

Can we build an Activist AI?

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