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ink on paper... mmmm, delicious ... isn't this just one of the best scents humans ever made? i love technology sm!
"One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty 'hi,' is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?"
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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It's a bit of a slow burner, but I appreciate the technical details she focuses on. Like, what the tics of ai instruct us about human use of language and associations
And I appreciate her overall philosophical take. She's not fighting all the ways ai is imperfect, while she acknowledges a couple of problems, but I think that by getting excited about how it's a mirror, she reveals a sort of optimism for the future.
Here to stay, so let's have fun with the good bits
N+1 article by Rachel Ossip
Oct 25, 2024
by wendell berry
on technology, "advancement", and our shared future
its also very tiny
Dec 3, 2024
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Boo I hate the outsourcing of labour! Was reading an essay/talk from Stephen Fry and wanted to share
“We have long been used to thinking of technology as being ethically neutral, lacking moral valency. The same press can print Shakespeare’s sonnets one day and Hitler’s Mein Kampf the next. The devices are not capable of making decisions, either aesthetic, ethical or political. The NRA likes to say the same thing about guns. Ai however is different. Intelligence is all about decision making. That’s what separates it from automated, mechanically determined outcomes. That’s what separates a river from a canal. A canal must go where we tell it. A river is led by nothing but gravity and if that means flooding a town, tough on the town. Ai’s gravity is its goals. Unsupervised machine learning allows for unsupervised machines — and for the independent agents that flow from them.„
3d ago
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phew....dodged that bullet by teleportation into consciousness
Mar 5, 2024
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i'm a teacher.
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fish tank • i've recced this before, raw, social realism, about a strong stubborn teenage girl, coming of age, cannot watch this often, but when i do it always makes me feel alive!
ponyo • my favorite ghibli, cute song, target audience is younger than some other ghiblis, ancient fishes!!! awe-some mothers! comfort film
the taste of tea • i've also recced separately on here before, slice of life, funnyyyy, cute, beautiful, watched this a lot over the years
somewhere • i have this on blu ray... watched it many times, of all coppola films this one feels closest to me
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