Ted Chiang:
Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are
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Terry Codier:
BORING
adjective.
Of a technology: too useful to disappear, too uncool to hype, too federated to acquire, and too awkward to turn cleanly into a platform.
Bertrand Russel:
The best way to overcome it—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river:
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Fred Rogers:
What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong…
And nothing you do seems very right?
What do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or see
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Bilge Ebiri:
At the end of The Grand Budapest Hotel, decades after the central events, it is remarked of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), the film's exceedingly courtly and crafty concierge hero, that “his world had vanished long before he ever entered it.” On its surface, the movie has, up to this
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Albert Einstein:
One more thing I would say with regard to immigration generally: There exists on the subject a fatal miscomprehension. Unemployment is not decreased by restricting immigration. For unemployment depends on faulty distribution of work among those capable of work. Immigration increases
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Kai:
Over the weekend, I stumbled across @soya_jones' Instagram Story of his cycling trip through Iran. He's an Irish bikepacker, pedalling through a country that most Western media presents as a malevolent enigma; and what does he find? People offering iced water while driving by in their car,
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John Gruber:
This video is one of the most pathetic things I've ever witnessed, for everyone involved. (Note Cook's awkward laughter when Trump, after claiming that “about $17 trillion is coming into the United States” thanks to the brilliance of his economic statecraft, quips “That's even a lot of
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王家卫 :
Technology is just a tool. AI can replicate, but can it yearn? Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people who can't express their feelings? Can code capture the way memory distorts and reshapes our past? These are the questions that interest me, and I don't think
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Dr. Steven Zucker:
and the center of the painting is illuminated as if by a street light that looks in Picasso's handling like a human eye, but also as an explosion, but also with an incandescent light bulb at its center. Art historians have read this a number of different ways. It has been read as
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