Why do AI systems generate such convincing content yet fundamentally lack the capacity to care if it's true or truth-tracking? In "Beyond Computation: Intelligence, Care, and Transformational Agency," we explore why scaling up AI systems won't bridge the fundamental gap between

Thinking inspired by Catherine Pickstock and john milbank on embodied, liturgical AI. Wrote this after reading her wonderful After Writing. open.substack.com/pub/ryandavidm…

My book on Cajetan’s analogy theory was published 15 years ago, in 2010, in paperback. The press issued a hardcover edition in 2022, of which, for some reason, I never received author’s copies—until now. Am feeling generous. Giving one away Friday to a random reposter!

This is an absolutely wonderful and beautifully written essay.

The Idolatry of Possibility: A Catholic Critique of the Silicon Valley Complex open.substack.com/pub/analogion/… john milbank Ulrich L. Lehner 🟦 Ryan Haecker

In the age of spectacle, the first step is a lowering—not into inferno, but into reality. I entered the city of the scroll, the cave of endless choice, the gallery of mirrors. Here were housed the profiles of a thousand selves: filtered, curated, echoed. Here was the cloud, not

Is AI replacing intelligence—or replacing the desire for wisdom? I wrote a response to Rebecca Lowe’s essay on AI & philosophy. It’s about recursion, education, formation, and the human cost of getting instant answers. open.substack.com/pub/analogion/…

AI's $7 Trillion Brain: You're Already Wired Into Its Global Cognitive Infrastructure open.substack.com/pub/analogion/… Sam Altman Andrej Karpathy

What if you could live your life instead of being lived by it? Every morning, hundreds of notifications steal your attention. Each interruption costs 23 minutes of focus! You’re not lazy or disorganized. You’re fighting systems designed to capture your attention, not protect it.

Advanced version of Gemini Deep Think (announced at #GoogleIO) using parallel inference time computation achieved gold-medal performance at IMO, solving 5/6 problems with rigorous proofs as verified by official IMO judges! Congrats to all involved! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…