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WIST QuotationsA quotation from Mervyn Haisman
JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
JAMIE: What are you going to do?
THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.
Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]
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Doctor Who (1963) - 05x02 "The Abominable Snowmen," Part 4 (1967-10-21) [w. Meryn Haisman, Henry Lincoln] | WIST Quotations
JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor? THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have. JAMIE: What are you going to do? THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it. (Source (Video)). Note that the original video for this episode has been lost; it recreated in animated form in…
WordofTheHour#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity
- French: malin
- German: gewitzt
- Italian: astuto
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Spanish: astuto
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N-gated Hacker News🎩✨ Ah yes, the long con of #LLMs, a mere extension of Pascal's #cunning plan to trick us all with mechanical marvels since 1623. Who needs progress when we can just blame the badgers? 🦡🔮
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/ #LongCon #Pascal #Badgers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/ #LongCon #Pascal #Badgers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.
A quotation from Joseph Addison
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225
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CREON: A woman of hot temper — and a man the same —
Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ,
ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.]
Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ,
ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 319ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]
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Medea [Μήδεια], l. 319ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)] - Euripides | WIST Quotations
CREON: A woman of hot temper -- and a man the same -- Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever. [ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ, ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.] Expressing his mistrust of how reasonably, if tragically, Medea is presenting herself. (Source (Greek)).…
WIST Quotations Has Moved!What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)
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#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity
- French: malin
- German: gewitzt
- Italian: astuto
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Spanish: astuto
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AGAMEMNON: But women?
Women overpower men?
HECUBA: There is power
in numbers, and cunning makes us strong.
ἈΓΑΜΈΜΝΩΝ: καὶ πῶς γυναιξὶν ἀρσένων ἔσται κράτος;
ἙΚΆΒΗ: δεινὸν τὸ πλῆθος σὺν δόλῳ τε δύσμαχον.
Women overpower men?
HECUBA: There is power
in numbers, and cunning makes us strong.
ἈΓΑΜΈΜΝΩΝ: καὶ πῶς γυναιξὶν ἀρσένων ἔσται κράτος;
ἙΚΆΒΗ: δεινὸν τὸ πλῆθος σὺν δόλῳ τε δύσμαχον.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 883ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]
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Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)
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