This is stunning. Vasily Grossman in Life and Fate 1960, writing on "this machine whose dimensions and weight will continually increase as it attempts to reproduce the peculiarities of mind and soul of an average, inconspicuous human being."

And pointedly noting in the same breath: "Fascism annihilated tens of millions of people."

(I looked this up because of a post by @maelle)

#AI #GenAI #fascism

Grossman did not live to see this incredible novel published. The KGB seized the manuscript in 1960 and it went missing for twenty years; Grossman died in 1964. The ms resurfaced in the 1980s thanks to a dissident and appeared in English translation in 1985