Episode 8.39: We should not “decide once, obey forever”: everything requires choices, even chatGPT.

Extended reflections on Lev Shestov‘s favourite quotation from Seneca, “decide once, obey forever” as it applies to Scripture, to science, to compressability, and to all the decisions that we make in life. And it could, were we foolish enough to relinquish or abandon our obligation to decide by using active discernment in the name of some all-knowing, all powerful AGI, as we have proved so eager to do in the name of some all-knowing, all-powerful deity, mean that we would then obey it forever without question, treating it as if it were incapable of error. The dangers of placing such faith in anything are incalculable.