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What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI?

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/what-would-c-s-lewis-have-thought-of-ai/
9•RickJWagner•3h ago

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nephihaha•2h ago
The answer can be found in "the Abolition of Man" and "That Hideous Strength".

C.S. Lewis would have hated the AI mockeries of him on YouTube. There are several channels which dispense AI slop with his name attached to it.

nlavezzo•1h ago
Yes, That Hideous Strength despite being written probably 60 years ago seems dead on as a criticism of many of the things being pushed today.
liggitt•1h ago
I've always thought this Lewis quote was particularly apt:

"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."

(Mr. Beaver, on the White Witch, from "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe")

moomin•1h ago
I love CS Lewis. I don’t massively love his name being invoked by a bunch of people intent on ripping the chest out of America.
jfengel•29m ago
I don't especially love Lewis. His fiction is fine, but I find his theology badly overrated. At best it's pop theology, not scholarly, and even even as pop theology I find it shallow.

Ironically, I find his friend Tolkien's Catholic theology more thoughtfully expressed in fiction that Lewis' is in nonfiction.

hackingonempty•39m ago
> Men have souls.

Is it not a lie to assert something is true when you do not actually know it to be true?

ux266478•4m ago
Generally we restrict the notion of lying to mean willful assertions that are known to be false. But there are other problems here. We tend to divide knowledge into the categories of a posteriori (that is which justified belief through observation and experience) and a priori (that which is justified belief through structural consequence, or without experience). C.S. Lewis being a Catholic is making an assertion on an a priori facet of knowledge.

Anything is true provided you take the right postulates. You should always keep that in mind, as well as the fact that presuppositional critique requires epistemic certainty.

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