Robert DeVito
Examining what holds and what breaks in AI governance when we look closely at what we've built. Philosophy, alignment, and the discipline of not mistaking our constructions for solid ground.
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The Vanishing Middle Way (opens the original)
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The butter lamps at Boudha don’t care about legislation. They burn the same for a dead marina cat as they do for a dead man in New York, which is one of the things I love about them. But on the night the news reached the kora, the lamps lit for Lobsang Palden, the man Tibetans knew as Lobga Rangzen, seemed to burn with a particular argument in them. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Eb6P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F
The Man Named Independence (opens the original)
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On Thursday evening a man walked to the corner of 42nd Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, in the long cool shadow of the United Nations, and began doing a series of strange and orderly things. He stood a Tibetan flag up in a traffic barrier so it would hold itself straight. He set his belongings down on a nearby monument, the way you leave your keys and your wallet on the table by the door when you come home. He took out his phone and went live on Facebook. Then he poured accelerant over hims
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