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Media pessimism about technology, illustrated by a 1903 New York Times article wrongly dismissing human flight before the Wright brothers.
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Thank you. Yeah. So I've been working on Vox in that way. But I also was a, this is a person who loves learning about technology. And I was looking at my media diet and I was really unhappy with it. I was really frustrated.
And I think to boil down the reason that I was frustrated was I felt like there was this knee pessimism in the news that I was
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Creative work as a partnership between disciplined human labor and mysterious inspiration, rejecting passive muse-worship and total control.
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And for me, the reason that is not a scary idea is because I don't ascribe to a sort of narrow view of the muse that says, I mean, I think that the two ways that artists are usually given to look at their work is either you are the servant of the muse, right? You're just a hand puppet. Or you are dominating that thing.
Like, you know, Nabokov said,
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Contrasting Western human supremacy with Japanese interbeing worldview, redefining humans and AI as equal participants in nature
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So to be human beings, which is very different from animals and other species, we need to behave as if we are not animal. Right, exactly. Yeah, so in this culture, we have been alienating ourselves from animal nature so that we can differentiate ourselves from other species like animals or plants.
Maybe this is related to monoistic gut culture or Ab
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