@JohnBrady Cal Newport, normally a “let’s all just calm down” commenter on AI, writes:
\n>Multiple representatives of an American company are publicly claiming that they’re building what they believe to be a weapon of mass destruction that they likely can’t prevent from accidentally deploying. They then declared that they have no interest in stopping.
\nTitle of his post is Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.”
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\n>We know nothing of God’s justice, only His mercy.
– St Isaac of Syria, from a reflection on hell by Fr Stephen Freeman.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/96886526","date_published":"2026-09-03T11:57:27+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 11:57","date_timestamp":1788436647,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"73179125","content_html":"Divna Ljubojević - Agni Parthene. I listen to this often.
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\n\n\n\n\nConscientious objectors who wish neither to wield nor submit to power are as impractical as unemployed poets, whiskey priests, and dandelions.
\n
The libertarian/anti-statist view has never had much of a constituency, but I’ve been thinking about how rapidly it seems to be losing ground these days.
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