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AI can write a Great Book. There’s no reason why a human has to be behind a book for it to be “great.” Philosophers are not safe.
To be clear, something is lost when there’s no soul behind the words. We read Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Machiavelli and we feel the weight of a life lived. That will be lost in AI books. But the content itself may be so moving, brilliant, and better than what any human could do that we overlook this tradeoff.
In fact, there already are Great Books which claim to not be written by man. The Quran, for its believers, is great precisely because it is not authored by a human.
Topics we cover:
01:18 Why AI Can Write Great Books
6:58 The End of Academic Philosophy Brought by AI
7:55 AI Can Teach Math But Not Prudence
17:18 I Sit With Claude And He Winces Not
19:54 If God Can Write a Great Book, Why Not AI?
30:33 The Dark Side of Tech
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