Machines and Mustard Seeds
Brandon RickabaughA philosopher’s notes on the ideas, desires, and systems that shape us. Whether they are true. Whether they can hold a life together.
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Today is Also for the Fatherless
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For some of us, today is painful. You may have never had a father. You may have lost your father recently. You may have been deeply hurt by your father.
A father is meant to be the first face that turns toward you and does not...
Altman’s New Exception and Our Moral Perception
The man in charge of building one of the most capable engines of substitution on earth tried replacing himself in his own messages. Then he stopped.
By his own account, Sam Altman had tried to hand his email and his Slack messages to AI, s...
Sam Altman’s Brand: Depersonalization?
In the 1950s, the RAND Corporation discovered that a human life caused budgeting problems.
The question was how much the Air Force should spend protecting pilots. If a pilot was treated as a soul, no budget could say what his life was wort...
Sam Altman tried to outsource his own messages to AI. Then he stopped.
The coming two-part essay follows the gap between being processed and being received to where it was always going
In the last two essays, we asked what happens to a person that is visible but never received, and why so many of us have beco...
The Strange Disorder of Living Elsewhere; and the Only Way Back
We can understand our cultural moment as a struggle with becoming less available to reality. That is what many of our struggles amount to.
A strange thing has happened: a culture that prides authenticity has become a people o...
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Philosopher (PhD), author, speaker, founder of NOVUS. I write on consciousness, AI, faith and culture, and spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus, and the strange work of staying human in a tech age.
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