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Purpose is perhaps best understood by examining it from three perspectives: institutional purpose, personal purpose, and communication purpose.


“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

“Then, in March of 2023, GPT-4 was rolled out for public testing via ChatGPT. This model achieved outstanding performance on a wide range of academic tests such as the SAT, the LSAT, AP tests, and the bar exam.[119] But its most important advance was its ability to reason organically about hypothetical situations by understanding the relationships between objects and actions—a capability known as world modeling.”
― The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
― The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

“A 2019 study showed that a neural net analyzing natural-language clinical metrics was able to diagnose pediatric diseases better than eight junior physicians exposed to the same data—and outperformed all twenty human doctors in some areas.”
― The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
― The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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