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As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn.
The Dostoevskian Moment As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. Apr 11, 2026 68 13 Share August von Kreling/The Dream of Faust (1874) This article by James Poulos was published on Palladium Magazine on April 11, 2026. The Faustian bargain was once a bad deal. The demon Mephistopheles offers you—a man in full at the dissatisfying limit of your great knowledge and success—even greater power and pleasure; you accept these things, but they make you less of a man. What, after all, does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul? A few t
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