“I can long for her and still hate her. After all, does a moth not hate a flame when it learns that the very thing that attracts it is the thing that will see it burn?”
― A Treachery of Swans
― A Treachery of Swans
“Let me tell you, there is nothing more terrifying than being attacked by the scorned equivalent of a glorified goose.”
― A Treachery of Swans
― A Treachery of Swans
“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
― Hungerstone
― Hungerstone
“What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“There is a different way forward. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be what it is today. We don’t need to accept the logic of unprecedented scale and consumption to achieve advancement and progress. So much of what our society actually needs—better health care and education, clean air and clean water, a faster transition away from fossil fuels—can be assisted and advanced with, and sometimes even necessitates, significantly smaller AI models and a diversity of other approaches. AI alone won’t be enough, either: We’ll also need more social cohesion and global cooperation, some of the very things being challenged by the existing vision of AI development.”
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
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