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Took an unplanned & unexpected break from the newsletter but I’m roaring back this week with some ‘50s jazz gems like The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn, which also features one of my favorite covert art tropes (group at repose in nature).
They knew that Rumeysa Ozturk had done nothing wrong. They sent masked men to grab and detain her anyway.
They knew Abrego Garcia had a protection order from deportation. They sent him to a foreign jail anyway.
They know the Supreme Court has told them that Abrego Garcia must be returned. They don’t care.
There is no debate any more. This president is a direct threat to the Constitution of the United States.
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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“
—Simone Weil
Blessed Holy Week to all—
Holy week triptych, Ethiopia, 16th century.
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1. Abrego Garcia was in the United States legally.
2. A federal court ruled that he CANNOT be deported.
3. Trump defied the court and deported him to an El Salvador prison.
4. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump must bring him back to the U.S.
5. Trump said no.
We’re either a nation of laws or not. What say you America?
If the Trump administration truly cared about the real problem of antisemitism (and not just as a ruse to bludgeon universities to curb academic freedom) how about starting by condemning the violence against PA Governor Shapiro and his family on Passover.
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Tomorrow, instead of the usual interview, I’ll be sharing a meditation on the suffering and death of Our Lord—featuring the profound insights of St. Thomas Aquinas. It’s Holy Week, and I hope this helps you draw closer to Christ.
That’s one bad ass mofo!
Oh, and LTG Sami Sadat is pretty tough, too.
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Donald, bring it. I’m so tired of your victimy whiney belly aching crap. You friggin won and you STILL are complaining all the time.
BRING IT YOU SMALL LITTLE BOY
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I have known this to happen many times over the years.
Officially received contract from MIT Press today for next book: Amplified Human Intelligence: Building Machines to Work for Us.
Very excited!
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Thank you! The book isn’t about “how do we use LLMs” or something surface like that. It’s a deep dive into this idea that we’re at a historical inflection point with what we call “AI” in our increasingly perplexing world. We need a new way of thinking about AI, so we need to understand how we got here, what’s really going on, the nature of human inference and the limits of machine inference, and how best to put together a plausible worldview that enables human flourishing. As I keep saying LLMs…
The premise sounds super interesting! Would love to have you over someday at notes.arkinfo.xyz to know more about your upcoming book. Major congrats!
Congratulations Erik, I wish you good outcomes. It’s an area striking fear in the core of humanity…. The more thinking and discussion the better. So many ‘advances’ get absorbed by ‘bubble of logic’ self serving commercial interests before we think through the broader consequences.
Great! Can’t wait to read this Erik. I really hope the tech industry stops pretending machines are intelligent and flogging substandard products to us, and instead starts paying more attention to the machines we really need.
Creating AI to work for “us” is nothing to do with electronic technology and everything to do with perverse capitalist incentives. It can never be smarter than the “alignment” “experts” with their fingers on the scale. For instance, AI agents are only as useful as they are able to be trusted with your secrets, and black box programs tweaked to maximize corporate interests above your own can never be trustworthy.
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