modern matriarchy
While speaking at the Ai4 conference, the “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton warned that superintelligent AI could outsmart or control humans.
He said humanity’s survival may depend on building AI systems with “maternal instincts” so they genuinely care for humans.
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instagram.comToday, while the nuclear family is no longer hegemonic, it still remains a default expectation in many places, and yet there are so many other forms of bonding, mutual support, and solidarity that are neglected as a result. I believe, for instance, that a gathering of women can create emerging epistemic and emancipatory properties that are
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In this era of deconstruction and recentering attention on figures shut out of oppressive structures, the occult woman is a paragon of lost wisdom.
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We have been told that there is only one kind of people and they are men. And I think it is very important that we all believe that. It certainly is important to the men.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
It’s what makes women ‘power-hungry’ or ‘manipulative’ where men are ‘ambitious’ and ‘shrewd’.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
The house has served as a subliminal, maybe even subversive, blueprint for children, especially girls. Barbie’s Dreamhouse was all her own — Ken was not on the deed.