James Stevens
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Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
“Early the following morning, for the first time in years, I tipped into my coffee a heaped spoon of sugar. I watched the confined, nut-brown disc of fluid turn then slow in its clockwise motion, then lose all purpose in a chaotic swell. Tempting, but I resisted a metaphor for my own existence.”
Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan
I know a few things, but I still got a lot to learn.
Consciously replenish… 🥰
Our existential showdown with machine intelligence isn’t a martial conflict between Sarah Connor versus the Terminator, but a confrontation between the human conscience and the absurd. The language machine doesn’t care whether anybody’s eating glue pizza. Glue pizza is a “you” problem. You might think that a computer ought to supply instructions fo
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