"Silicon Leviathan" essay drawing buzz as a key reflection on AI-era blowup
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-13
A blogger recommends A. Gamburd's essay "The Siren Call of Silicon Leviathan: Reflections on blowup and Aufklärungsdämmerung" as possibly one of the most important pieces on the current Twitter obsession. The recommender notes shared reference points (Schmitt's Leviathan in Hobbes, Panofsky) but says the essay goes beyond in many directions. A follow-up highlights its key formulation on the two-way relation between mathematics and the Enlightenment as consequential beyond mathematics.
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