language
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution—Stephen Wolfram Writings
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"Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." –Jackie O.
a beautiful passage from sublime’s innaugural zine on why language matters, in the context of building a different web.
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in
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The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace