Nathan Beacom
@zhuxi.bsky.social
Writer. 水 https://nathanbeacom.substack.com/
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There is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence – Nathan Beacom
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One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested that her relationship with ChatGPT was …
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One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested that her relationship with ChatGPT was …
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One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested
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July 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
There is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence – Nathan Beacom
https://www.byteseu.com/1171757/
One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested that her relationship with ChatGPT was …
https://www.byteseu.com/1171757/
One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested that her relationship with ChatGPT was …
In @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social I make the case that the term "Artificial Intelligence" is a deceptive marketing ploy, which we should refuse to give in to. In presenting their programs as thinking things, the AI companies are lulling us into living a lie.
There is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence.
Read this week's Monday Essay, written by Nathan Beacom: thedispatch.com/article/arti...
Read this week's Monday Essay, written by Nathan Beacom: thedispatch.com/article/arti...
There is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence
Calling chatbots ‘intelligent’ gets the concept fundamentally wrong.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social I make the case that the term "Artificial Intelligence" is a deceptive marketing ploy, which we should refuse to give in to. In presenting their programs as thinking things, the AI companies are lulling us into living a lie.
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“By uniting ourselves, by identifying ourselves, with something stronger and more stable than ourselves, we make our moral identity less vulnerable.”
@zhuxi.bsky.social on imagining a form of life freed from fear.
@zhuxi.bsky.social on imagining a form of life freed from fear.
Moral Identity Politics
Looking at our political parties as communities of moral formation rather than tribal division.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“By uniting ourselves, by identifying ourselves, with something stronger and more stable than ourselves, we make our moral identity less vulnerable.”
@zhuxi.bsky.social on imagining a form of life freed from fear.
@zhuxi.bsky.social on imagining a form of life freed from fear.
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“In order for us to be strong enough to bear political disagreement, we have to obtain a confidence in our moral identity that is rooted in something deeper than our political beliefs.”
@zhuxi.bsky.social on how rootedness—not partisanship—forms moral strength.
@zhuxi.bsky.social on how rootedness—not partisanship—forms moral strength.
Moral Identity Politics
Looking at our political parties as communities of moral formation rather than tribal division.
comment.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“In order for us to be strong enough to bear political disagreement, we have to obtain a confidence in our moral identity that is rooted in something deeper than our political beliefs.”
@zhuxi.bsky.social on how rootedness—not partisanship—forms moral strength.
@zhuxi.bsky.social on how rootedness—not partisanship—forms moral strength.
I have to admit that I've been surprised at the level of hate at AI LLMs.
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
Nag. Sorry. I can't abide the pocket lining any more. You've been a better billionaire than most, but at the end if the day, it's all just a meal ticket for you. Gross.
February 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Don't let the LLM take your humanity thedispatch.com/article/arti...
Tempted by the False God of Convenience
What to watch for as AI speeds forward.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Don't let the LLM take your humanity thedispatch.com/article/arti...
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Today asks "what do men want?"
Luckily, I've answered that question in Comment
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Luckily, I've answered that question in Comment
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Men Only Want One Thing
A look at how monkhood rather than war is the ground for cultivating real men.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Today asks "what do men want?"
Luckily, I've answered that question in Comment
comment.org/men-only-wan...
Luckily, I've answered that question in Comment
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As long as we continue to farm animals in confined conditions, where they stew in each other's juices, we will continue to incubate strange and deadly new diseases. Farm-grown diseases have killed many millions.
January 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
As long as we continue to farm animals in confined conditions, where they stew in each other's juices, we will continue to incubate strange and deadly new diseases. Farm-grown diseases have killed many millions.
December 14, 2024 at 7:14 PM
We have tasted and tested too much, lover
Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
Of penance will charm back the luxury
Of a child’s soul, we’ll return to Doom
The knowledge we stole but could not use.
Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
Of penance will charm back the luxury
Of a child’s soul, we’ll return to Doom
The knowledge we stole but could not use.
New post from me needing advent to be dark and bleak, and how disconcerting I find the slowness of nuns. morefullyalive.substack.com/p/blessedly-...
December 12, 2024 at 4:55 PM
We have tasted and tested too much, lover
Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
Of penance will charm back the luxury
Of a child’s soul, we’ll return to Doom
The knowledge we stole but could not use.
Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
Of penance will charm back the luxury
Of a child’s soul, we’ll return to Doom
The knowledge we stole but could not use.
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“Vice will always be with us. But we can choose whether vice merely haunts around the edges of our commonwealth or occupies its very heart.”
Nathan Beacom for The Monday Essay:
Nathan Beacom for The Monday Essay:
The Way of Moral Reform
What would it take to build virtue for a people?
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December 9, 2024 at 3:50 PM
“Vice will always be with us. But we can choose whether vice merely haunts around the edges of our commonwealth or occupies its very heart.”
Nathan Beacom for The Monday Essay:
Nathan Beacom for The Monday Essay:
Delighted to be featured @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social with their Monday essay.
The surprising resonance between Tocqueville and an ancient Chinese philosopher on why morals matter even more than laws.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
The surprising resonance between Tocqueville and an ancient Chinese philosopher on why morals matter even more than laws.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
The Way of Moral Reform
What would it take to build virtue for a people?
thedispatch.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Delighted to be featured @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social with their Monday essay.
The surprising resonance between Tocqueville and an ancient Chinese philosopher on why morals matter even more than laws.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
The surprising resonance between Tocqueville and an ancient Chinese philosopher on why morals matter even more than laws.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
December 8, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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"It’s different when you work on a building that has a soul. Beauty makes everything easier.”
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Notre-Dame Reopens in Paris After a Fire. It’s Astonishing.
Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.
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December 7, 2024 at 11:31 PM
"It’s different when you work on a building that has a soul. Beauty makes everything easier.”
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"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature"
"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand...Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand...Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
December 7, 2024 at 7:12 PM
"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature"
"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand...Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand...Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
Political posting from scientists hurts scientific endeavor because people trust, expect, or hope that scientists are people who have cultivated dispassionate, non-ideological dispositions.
The tweeting is a problem, but the more serious problem, perhaps, is the disposition it reveals
The tweeting is a problem, but the more serious problem, perhaps, is the disposition it reveals
Tweeting about politics undermines scientists’ credibility in the eyes of the public — gotta leave the takes to trained professionals.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Political posting from scientists hurts scientific endeavor because people trust, expect, or hope that scientists are people who have cultivated dispassionate, non-ideological dispositions.
The tweeting is a problem, but the more serious problem, perhaps, is the disposition it reveals
The tweeting is a problem, but the more serious problem, perhaps, is the disposition it reveals
In ancient China, before Christ, there was a striking parallel to modern ethical debates. The school of Yang followed enlightened self-interest, the school of Mo followed a kind of utilitarianism. The school of Mengzi proposed the middle way.
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December 6, 2024 at 5:19 PM
In ancient China, before Christ, there was a striking parallel to modern ethical debates. The school of Yang followed enlightened self-interest, the school of Mo followed a kind of utilitarianism. The school of Mengzi proposed the middle way.
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December 4, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Why Talk of Profit? My Only Topic is Righteousness
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December 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Why Talk of Profit? My Only Topic is Righteousness
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Great piece
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December 2, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Great piece
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jacobin.com/2024/10/the-...
How the idea of a natural law rebuked tyrants, stirred reformers, and set the tone for centuries of Chinese history.
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December 2, 2024 at 3:27 AM
How the idea of a natural law rebuked tyrants, stirred reformers, and set the tone for centuries of Chinese history.
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