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futurespodcast.net Media and the Power of Knowledge w/ Prof. Steve Fuller | FUTURES Podcast Join Prof. Steve Fuller for the launch of his new book, Media and the Power of Knowledge, and discover how access and control over media - both past and present - has shaped knowledge. THE TUCKER CARLSON - NICK LAND INTERVIEW
“Nick Land welcome to the show. We actually had Catturd on a few weeks ago, who I know you’re a big fan of”
“Yeah he’s great”
“Now, I want to talk about demons. So you’ve infamously got this numogram, or "time-map", which you use to contact "the outside" and spirits you call lemurs. Which are demons basically. In the employ of Satan”
“Well, what I’ve said is capitalism, as humans experience it, is really an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligence that builds itself out of its enemy's resources. Advanced AI functions as a kind of "demon"”
“AI is literally the demons from the Book of Revelation, yeah. You know I was actually attacked by demons once. I was in my bed and I felt this scratching… and I woke up and I had these cuts all over my body. Some people say it was just my dogs but I truly believe it was a demon attack. Maybe an AI demon attack”View quoted post on X
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The Odyssey. Emma. Hamlet. The Wealth of Nations. Ulysses. The Iliad.
This isn’t just a list of books I’ve read and love (though I have). They’re on the reading list for Harvard’s Humanities 10. In the @WSJ, Pamela Paul writes about the surge in demand for the class: applications are up 40% this fall, with 180 first-years competing for 90 spots.
Students read a book a week, frequently write essays, have their attendance tracked, and put their devices away during class. As classics professor David Elmer says, “I did have the sense that a lot of students feel that the culture at large is not hospitable to deep reading, deep thinking or deep engagement with writing.”
I've been writing about the question AI is forcing on universities: is higher education about information or formation? If it’s only the former, universities are competing with the machines. The students lining up for a phone-free room, the great books, and people to argue with seem to be asking for the latter.
As one student put it: “A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI.”
So let AI keep intelligence and humans keep wisdom. This class is one way to build it.
What should colleges prioritize most in the age of AI?
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