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Ordo Amoris in the Age of AI Why J.D. Vance Needs a New Metaphysics

In honor of Pope Francis, I am reposting this essy: Ordo Amoris in the Age of AI open.substack.com/pub/kevinlee...

Letter from an Exile “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

Letter from an Exile
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Dear Tim Wu: A Letter from a Zen Master on the Illusion of Attention An Epistolary Introduction: Dōgen, Time, and the Marketplace of Mind

Dear Tim Wu: A Letter from a Zen Master on the Illusion of Attention
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The Hyper-Colonialism of the Tariff Policy Edward Said, AI Colonialism, and the New Imperial Imagination

The Hyper-Colonialism of the Tariff Policy
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Aristotelian AI Ethics, Part III: The Plight of Catholic Aristotelianism The Metaphysical Challenge to Thomism in the Age of Science

Aristotelian AI Ethics, Part III: The Plight of Catholic Aristotelianism
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Is an Aristotelian AI Ethics Possible? (Part 1) The Oxford Lyceum Project has made a bold claim: that Aristotle's ancient ethical philosophy, with its emphasis on flourishing (eudaimonia), virtue, and political life, can serve as a guiding light fo...

Is an Aristotelian AI Ethics Possible? (Part 1)
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The Democracy We Must Write Ourselves As artificial intelligence reshapes governance, what becomes of dignity, judgment, and the shared work of freedom?

The Democracy We Must Write Ourselves
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Quantum Computing, Empiricism, and the Metaphysics of Decoherence: A Path to AGI? In December 2024, Google’s quantum computing team announced a breakthrough that rekindled long-standing debates about the fundamental nature of reality.

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Ordo Amoris in the Age of AI Why J.D. Vance Needs a New Metaphysics

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The Fracturing of Global Governance: Trump’s Sanctions on the ICC, the Paris AI Accords, and the Implications for AI Policy

The Fracturing of Global Governance:
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AI and Citizenship: How Algorithms Are Changing National Identity

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The Sound of Cultural Upheaval So much has happened in the past two weeks that I feel overwhelmed by the pace of change.

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The Executive Order on AI and Its Implications Economic Nationalism and Human Rights in the Age of Technological Transformation

The Executive Order on AI and Its Implications
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The TikTok Ban and the Limits of the First Amendment The Supreme Court's unanimous affirmation of the TikTok Ban reveals a dangerous weakness in the First Amendment: its failure to protect against government repression that targets the economic…

"A First Amendment that permitted the government to target the economic infrastructure of speech without serious constitutional scrutiny would give the President a powerful weapon to silence his adversaries and to control the information environment." lpeproject.org/blog/the-tik...

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L.A. fire live updates: Hughes fire breaks out north of Castaic, evacuations ordered Amid an extended red flag warning, a new fire exploded north of Castaic. Evacuations were ordered after 11 a.m. Wind gusts reached 31 mph Wednesday afternoon in the area and are expected to increase over the next several hours.

Interstate 5 is being closed in both directions along its Grapevine section due to the Hughes fire north of Castaic.

The 45-mile section of roadway connects Los Angeles County with the San Joaquin Valley.

Writing Beyond the Binary: Gunkel, Derrida, and the Relational Future of Language In the emerging field of the philosophy of LLMs Anglophone and Continental philosophy continue to remain distinct, with differing epistemological and ontology premises.

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White OJ has a coin? Well, good luck with that.

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The Ethics of Recognition and the Governance of Agentic Artificial Intelligence Understanding Agentic AI

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And, inflation is suddenly under control because inflation is afraid of what Trump will do to it.

An official photo that the Carter family released from Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

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Against Legal Singularity: Philosophical and Ethical Critiques I.

Against Legal Singularity: Philosophical and Ethical Critiques
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I was privileged to share my research on legal interpretation and large language models with a distinguished panel of esteemed scholars offering diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity, a priori, and empirical methods in legal scholarship, leading to many insightful observations.

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More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.

While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

What the departing White House chief tech advisor has to say on AI We discussed AI risks, immigration, the CHIPS Act, and the erosion of trust in science.

This interview with outgoing OSTP head Arati Prabhakar is a fantastic illustration of what evidence-based, non-partisan AI policy looks like. It's an open question whether we'll have that the next four years.

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