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“Are those who fire the guns and take the bullets ever those who start the war?”
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“When humans do something wrong, they generally face consequences. Even when our wrongdoing goes undetected by another—a parent, a spouse, an institution, law enforcement—we tend to experience guilt, shame, or regret. Only a psychopath lives life free of remorse. Algorithms face no such consequences for their misbehavior, either societal or emotional. Punishment, guilt, culpability are alien to them. There are no moral qualms in an algorithm. Yet without acknowledgment of wrongdoing, how can there be regret? Without self-consciousness of guilt, how can there be remorse? And without regret and remorse, how can there be moral growth? —Lorelei Shaw, Silicon Souls: On the Culpability of Artificial Minds”
― Culpability
― Culpability
“I feel. Of course I do. I have emotions. But I try to consider events as if they're happening to someone else. Some other entity. There's the thinking, rationalizing I (me). And the doing, the experiencing, her. I look at her kindly. From a distance. To protect myself, I detach.”
― Assembly
― Assembly
“«[...] Nei libri di scuola ci sono piccoli estratti di libri interi, giusto? Quei pezzetti sono facili. Anche se il libro poi nella sua interezza è difficile, i singoli estratti restano semplici.»
«...»
«Penso che anche la vita sia così.»
«Ossia che nel suo insieme è difficile?»
«Sì. Nella sua interezza è complicata. [...]»”
― La casa di Sunrye
«...»
«Penso che anche la vita sia così.»
«Ossia che nel suo insieme è difficile?»
«Sì. Nella sua interezza è complicata. [...]»”
― La casa di Sunrye
“Jesus Christ, Mom, why didn’t you tell me? How long ago did he leave?”
An interesting question, one whose answer depended on one’s definition of “leave.” One might think that leaving is an all-or-nothing activity: one is here; then one is not here. However, experience would suggest that leaving occurs on a continuum, happening in stages. Had Hal left when he stopped sleeping in the master bedroom with me, choosing to sleep slumped over his desk instead? Had he left when he told me that he didn’t want to live in this house anymore, that he didn’t care if we took a huge loss in selling it or even if we didn’t sell it at all, that he just needed to get out? Had he left when I put my foot down for once and told him that, no, we weren’t selling, that I wasn’t going anywhere, that this was our home? Had he left on one of those days when we didn’t say a word to each other, just floated through the house on our own paths, apparitions following our own muscle memory? Or had he left the day he was gone, the day he decided he couldn’t take it anymore, the door closing slowly after him but the tires of the taxi speeding quickly over the gravel in the driveway? (Drive, he must have commanded.)”
― The September House
An interesting question, one whose answer depended on one’s definition of “leave.” One might think that leaving is an all-or-nothing activity: one is here; then one is not here. However, experience would suggest that leaving occurs on a continuum, happening in stages. Had Hal left when he stopped sleeping in the master bedroom with me, choosing to sleep slumped over his desk instead? Had he left when he told me that he didn’t want to live in this house anymore, that he didn’t care if we took a huge loss in selling it or even if we didn’t sell it at all, that he just needed to get out? Had he left when I put my foot down for once and told him that, no, we weren’t selling, that I wasn’t going anywhere, that this was our home? Had he left on one of those days when we didn’t say a word to each other, just floated through the house on our own paths, apparitions following our own muscle memory? Or had he left the day he was gone, the day he decided he couldn’t take it anymore, the door closing slowly after him but the tires of the taxi speeding quickly over the gravel in the driveway? (Drive, he must have commanded.)”
― The September House
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