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“It's fine to be "anti-AI bubble," but it's pretty silly to be "anti-statistical analysis" and "anti-machine learning" and "anti-automated inference." Long after the bubble is gone, many of these tools will recede to the status of boring utilities, nurtured by open-source weirdos and a few ambitious startups.”
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“There is one thing SF writers know that the AI bosses who are gunning for generational dynastic wealth by transforming us all into AI-lashed reverse centaurs do not know, and that they absolutely don't want you to know. That thing is this: the future is up for grabs. It is not inevitable. AI isn't a genie that can't be put back into a bottle. How we use AI is up to us. Whether we use AI is up to us. The future can be ours, if we never stop remembering that the most important fact about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for, and who it does it to.”
― The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
― The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
“If we establish that what we do to animals is an issue of ethics, that means that we then need an ethical justification to condone what we do to them. And the fundamental point of this book is to show that no such justification exists.”
― How to Argue With a Meat Eater
― How to Argue With a Meat Eater
“Rather than trying to paper over our suffering with comforting beliefs, this approach is about actually exploring directly what seems to be in the way of freedom, peace and happiness, what seems scary, dreadful and unbearable. It's one thing to believe that the tiger chasing you is only a mirage, and it's another thing entirely to actually turn around and embrace the tiger and find out for sure.”
― Nothing to Grasp
― Nothing to Grasp
“If we say, 'This is it,' the words create the very split they attempt to point beyond. If we say 'All is One,' it is one too many. If we call it 'nothing,' it seems to deny the undeniable presence of everything. If we assert that 'there is nothing to do,' it seems to overlook the necessity of doing whatever we are moved by life to do. If we assert that 'there is something to do,' it makes it sound as if something else is required in order to be what we already are. The dualistic mind grasps, reifies, asserts, denies and fixates. It takes positions and clings to those positions, mistaking them for reality. It identifies with its positions and feels threatened when they are questioned. But to cling to any conceptual map of reality is to miss the ever-changing actuality of this-here-now.”
― Nothing to Grasp
― Nothing to Grasp
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