The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 8

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

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“We live in the complete eclipse of traditional ideals, an eclipse that can make one think it is a “sunset”. Since 1945 a new historic period has begun: that of home progressivus. But is it a question of “rising ideals”, or of “the obscuration of intelligence”?”…

- Augusto del Noce

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“Throughout Finnegans Wake, Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the Tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumptions, or what Bacon calls the rein of the idols”…

— Marshall McLuhan

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Please read:

• Experts warn of impact on Children’s development from increasing AI use [LINK];

• AI and Schools & College [LINK];

• Silicon Valley’s attempts to end Labour [LINK];

• Neuroscience needs a new paradigm - The brain is not machine [LINK] - and - The Mechanisation of the Human Mind and the Origins of Cognitive Science [LINK];

• AI and Torts [LINK];

• Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models [LINK] [LINK];

• ChatGPT Delusional Spirals [LINK];

• AI replacing entry level workers [LINK]; and

• The Economics of AI - Global Crossing Redux? [LINK]

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Footnote:

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 1 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 2 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 3 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 4 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 5 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 6 [LINK]; and

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 7 [LINK].

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