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What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgThe Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human feedback, which again is just kind of tech-washing precarious human labor. It’s thousands and thousands of workers paid very little, though en masse it’s very expensive, and there’s no other way to... See more
Devin Coldewey • Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch
I have occasionally been asked why I’m obsessed with brands. The answer is that brands are things made out of belief. They are amorphous *meanings* that structure our relationships; they are already the same sort of thing that a religion or a culture is. With the cultural production service economy, and now with cryptocurrencies, all of the... See more