Adorno: “The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. Every debate about the ideals of education is trivial and inconsequential compared to this single ideal: never again Auschwitz."
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“A new categorical imperative has been imposed by Hitler upon unfree mankind: to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will happen.” (Negative Dialectics)
jan 27, 2025, 3:02 am • 80 10 • view
On AI: "People are inclined to take technology to be the thing itself, as an end in itself, a force of its own, and they forget that it is an extension of human dexterity. The means are fetishized, because the ends—a life of human dignity—are concealed and removed from the consciousness of people."
jan 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 7 2 • view
Oh my this is dense. Or at least the summary was.
jan 27, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems aspirational
jan 27, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view