Donald points rightly to some of the classic monsterisation responses to AI. Although he imo misrepresents the EU AI Act (which in its proposal carefully avoids static tech regulation).

Vgl [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]]

Via Stephen Downes https://www.downes.ca/post/75035

openvraag is er een link met [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] ook uit #2003/

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So very true. Monsters are made, not born. Everyone is born into the sacred, but then life can transform the sACred into the sCAred. Pathological fear can motivate a host of pathological responses such as selfishness, alienation, greed, anger, control, abuse, othering,dehumanization, etc.

Theseus was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus' escape, and the love of Ariadne for Theseus.

Victor refers to the Creature as his vampire--a reanimated corpse. The vampire was a notorious figure in British lore in the period, which later be immortalized in John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) a friend of the Shelleys and their guest at Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816, when Mary first drafted the novel.

Best remembered for the tale "St. George and the Dragon," a legend told by Crusaders, George became the patron saint of England.

Victor's use of the term mummy is ironic here, since he is not trying to preserve the body parts comprising the Creature so much as trying to reanimate them. The word "mummy" is used once more, in Walton's letter of September 12, where the Captain happens upon the Creature staring at Victor's recently deceased corpse.

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And I suspect this is when the evil of the fallen angels began to make them less like angels and more like monsters.

Need to check out this podcast.

mind blown.