pneumaculturist, 5 months ago

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Thanks for this. Now included under Other media in my blogging on The Powers (https://theography.edublogs.org/cited-and-consulted-reading/). It has a really nice survey of the topic running through Hebrew scriptures and beyond.

superheroine, 5 months ago

@pneumaculturist @religion @religiousstudies

thank you for sharing and cool blog. and i hope tou enjoyed the lecture

i really liked this article: https://theography.edublogs.org/2023/12/05/ai-ngels-of-our-worse-natures/

i think it gets into the realities of corporations. i had thought of the anthropomorphic nature of corporations and how that affects human consumption and i was nice to read another person's thoughts on it.

though i don't quite understand the ai-angel connection. is it that they were both created to serve and are not human?

pneumaculturist, 5 months ago

@superheroine @religion @religiousstudies
The AI:angel connection. I'm seeing it materially as complex information systems (albeit different substrates). I would say that in both cases, as you say, there is also a 'created to serve' dimension, and also 'subverted for ill' -fallen angels /aingels .
Probably not made sufficiently explicit in that post (I'm taking note for future) is the idea that sometimes 'angel' seems to refer to corporised entities made of humans (see chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, for example).
Charlie Stross's 'slow ai' remark was really helpful to me in affirming that it wasn't 'just me' seeing it.
I've been thinking that maybe the next post should be to unpack the Revelation 2 & 3 thing a bit...