Is it true that “the State of the Union is strong”?
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
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Summary
President Biden will likely begin tonight’s address with the declaration, “The State of the Union is strong,” an assertion made by nearly every president in this setting since Ronald Reagan began the practice in 1983. In tonight’s case, some commentators will agree with the president’s claim, while others will disagree. Each will try to convince us that their version of reality is our reality. This is because our “post-truth” culture believes that truth is perception. If we believe something to be true, it is therefore true for us, or so we think. This viewpoint is becoming more dangerous now than at any time in human history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily Article for Thursday, March 7, 2024. |
| 0:09.6 | The U.S. Constitution states that the President, quote, shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, Article 2, Section 3. |
| 0:19.9 | President Biden will likely begin tonight's address with the declaration, the State of the Union, Article 2, Section 3. President Biden will likely begin tonight's address |
| 0:22.2 | with the declaration, the state of the union is strong, an assertion made by nearly every |
| 0:27.6 | president in this setting since Ronald Reagan began the practice back in 1983. In tonight's case, |
| 0:33.7 | some commentators will agree with the president's claim, while others will disagree. |
| 0:38.4 | Each will try to convince us that their version of reality is our reality. |
| 0:43.1 | This is because our post-truth culture believes that truth is perception. |
| 0:47.9 | If we believe something to be true, it's therefore true for us, or so we think. |
| 0:52.7 | This viewpoint is becoming more dangerous now than at any time |
| 0:57.2 | in human history. Ian McGilchrist is a neuroscience researcher whose lecture at the 22 World Summit |
| 1:04.9 | AI in Amsterdam was adapted into an urgent essay in the current issue of first things. He warns that artificial |
| 1:12.4 | intelligence is quickly progressing in ways that make people more expendable and less significant, |
| 1:19.3 | writing these words. Consider the impact of the loss of daily contact with human beings |
| 1:24.7 | as more and more jobs become automated. What happens to those who are |
| 1:29.1 | rendered unemployed? And what about our dignity as free individuals? Can we escape the appalling |
| 1:35.2 | prospect already realized in China that wherever we go, whatever we buy, whomever we are seen |
| 1:41.6 | with, our every word, every action, the very thoughts we express on our |
| 1:45.9 | faces, all is monitored, potentially marked down against us, and whatever freedom is left to us |
| 1:52.4 | is curtailed accordingly. Then he moves to the theme I've been exploring this week with these words. |
| 1:58.9 | There is much to fear if we leave important decisions in the hands of AI. |
| 2:03.5 | All decisions affecting humans are moral decisions. |
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