Walter Benjamin, in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, writes, "Truth is not a matter of exposure which destroys the secret, but a revelation that does justice to it." Truth, in a sense, is a relation we hold with a proposition, not some value inherent in the proposition itself. The same is true of ethics. "The ethical relation to AI may demand something closer to what Benjamin evokes: a practice of reading that is less about penetration than about attunement - not the soft-focus kind that mistakes resonance for harmony, but the critical kind that remains alert to friction, difference, and delay." Of course, to say something like this is a modern heresy, as I'm discovering.
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