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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
Marilynne Robinson • Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
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“I’ve been considering the response of humans to climate change through the lens of the classic five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Honestly, we’ve barely begun.”
in 2020, only 268 titles sold more than 100,000 copies, and 96 percent of books sold less than 1,000 copies. That’s still the vibe.
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Ok, so the rumor about OpenAI Orion is that it's "100 times more powerful than GPT-4".
Let's forget that this is ill-defined, and a rumor. It implies gruesomely superhuman generalist ability.
The tech media describes this potentiality like so:
"The model’s development builds on lessons from OpenAI’s past efforts to make interactions with AI more
... See moreNow, there’s a wonderful work of Schopenhauer’s; he says, “When you reach a certain age,” and he wrote this when he was in his 60s or so, “and look back over your life, it seems to have had an order. It seems to have had been composed by someone. And those events that when they occurred seemed merely accidental and occasional and just something... See more
BillMoyers.com • Ep. 6: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘Masks of Eternity’
“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel
But the big uncertainty that determines whether 2100 is a happy place or a less happy place is our decisions on what we do with emissions. And they dwarf the uncertainties that we’re talking about here. We’re talking 0.1, 0.2 degrees. Well, the difference emissions make is 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees. So it’s an order of magnitude larger. And... See more