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We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct.

[Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations

We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct. [Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.] First appeared in the 5th (1678) edition. (Source (French)). Other translations: We attempt to Vindicate, and value our selves upon those Faults…

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News Beep Nov 9

Coroner finds several failings by Palmerston North’s mental health unit after Gabriella Freeland died by suicide while on leave

Freeland’s is the latest in a spate of deaths of patients either at the mental health inpat…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/239542/

Karlheinz Agsteiner Aug 14, 2025

Tried to create a venn diagram of LLM vs human features.

Turns out that much of what we have in common is our faults. So probably it's not AGI what we'll have but AGU - artificial general unintelligence 🙂

Here's my diagram.

More thoughts on why I believe AGI, trying to get AIs to get our intelligence, might not be a reasonable direction in my blog:

https://agsteiner.neocities.org/Blog/002_agu_en

#llm #agi #alienIntelligence #failings #agiIsOverrated #ai

the roamer Aug 11, 2025

Will we ever get this sorted?, he asked, almost crying. It's such a mess. We aren't really equipped to do this, are we?

Oh, no, we never will sort it, she said, smiling. And we are really, really bad at it.

No one ever succeeds. Stop fussing. Here, have one of my Rotis, fresh from the pan.

#vss #imperfections #failings

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ThePfromtheO Jul 8, 2025

"#JamieZawinski has #repeatedly said:

Now hear me out, but What If…? #browser #development was in the hands of some kind of #nonprofit #organization?

In my #humble but #correct #opinion, #Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

#Building THE #reference #implementation #WebBrowser and
Being a jugular-#snapping #attack #dog on #standards #committees.
There is no 3."
"Perhaps this is the only #viable #resolution."

"#Mozilla, for all its many #failings, has #invented a lot of #amazing #tech, from #Rust to #Servo to the #leading #budget #phone #OS. It shouldn't be trying to #capitalize on this #stuff. Maybe 3encourage it to have semi-independent #spinoffs, such as #Thunderbird, and as #KaiOS ought to be, and as #Rust could have been."
"But #JamieZawinski has the only #clear #vision and #solution we've seen yet. Perhaps he's #right, and #Mozilla #should be a #nonprofit, #working to #fund the one #independent, non-#vendor-driven, #standardscompliant #browserEngine."

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ThePfromtheO Jul 8, 2025

"#Mozilla can press on with independent subprojects such as #Thunderbird owners #MZLA #Technologies #Corporation. The popular #Electron #framework is based on #Chromium. It's too late to change that, even if maybe #Servo may one day offer an #alternative. But if #Thunderbird sucked in #Libpurple, it wouldn't matter if #Slack and #Teams and so on used #Electron, as Thunderbird could talk to the servers directly."
"But pointing at what we'd like to see is attempting to #treat the #symptoms and not the #disease. Is there a way to #encourage Mozilla to be an #organized, #focused, #professional #business, with #eyes keenly set on a clearly defined #goal? Perhaps that's the wrong #question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all. For all that the #Linux business is #huge, no #company #develops the #kernel. They all #cooperate on it. The #Linux #Foundation #funds it, but doesn't really #guide it."
"One #observer has been #spectating and #commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation – one of its original co-#developers, #JamieZawinksi. He has been accurately #cataloging Mozilla's #failings for #years."

#browser

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 6, 2025

A quotation from Cicero

It is a good thing to recognize one’s own faults.

[Bellum est enim sua vitia nosse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations

It is a good thing to recognize one’s own faults. [Bellum est enim sua vitia nosse.] Speaking of his own slight "vanity and thirst for fame." (Source (Latin)). Alternate translation: It is well to know one's faults. [tr. Shuckburgh (1900)] It is a great thing to know our own vices.…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 9, 2025

A quotation from Peters, Ellis:

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“God does indeed forbid,” said Radulfus dryly, “that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame.”
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/peters-ellis/3131/

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Colin from Edinburgh.Nov 27, 2024

Most #Americans fixate on #political personalities, and don't think enough about the #failings of the #system. Calling it a #democracy is far too much of a stretch.
Yes, yes - a #representative #republic, but it isn't really that either.
Read #Aristotle.

WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 15, 2024

A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/19198/

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, "On Vanity and Vanities" (1886) - Jerome, Jerome K. | WIST Quotations

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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