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Is Artificial Intelligence A Digital Demiurge?
Some provocative thinkers have compared AI to the demiurge of Gnosticism. The demiurge is a kind of false god, whom many Gnostic scriptures describe as […]
Final Destination and Fear in the 21st Century
The Final Destination franchise predicted the fear and nihilism that came after 9/11. This article is an analysis of Final Destination, and the way its approach to death, and to life, articulates our present despair.
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