spring 2024

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“More exemplary persons” gives tribute to a leading mind in journalism.

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March 30 | I regard two occasioned postings as together exemplifying a scale of caring which is integral to our times:

“Here now the dead” (Mar. 27) gives tribute to life, relative to a literary theorist who died in March. One’s life can exemplify the virtue of authentic being, even when not yet influencing heirs. Thinking of lives generally may reaffirm a virtue of being for the humanity of caring.

“Is the Singularity nearer?” (Mar. 22) marks a moment in the culture of A.I. which is not really intelligent in the sense of persons, though neural-networked algorithmic power is evolving at a startling pace.

Humanity was largely clueless about a heating Earth until very recently (though many climate scientists were alarmed in the early 1980s). Will humanity yield to techno-philes awed by becoming subject to a silicon god beyond control? Or is it that they want to become gods?

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