The day AI can do something boring and simple yet time consuming like paying my taxes or solving bank disputes, that day I'll actually be impressed.
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I write software, like literature and am interested in contemporary architecture
Just saw the trailer of the upcoming Wes Anderson movie. I like many of his movies, but this time the trailer looks so exaggerated in the color and mannerism that it almost seems like a "If Wes Anderson directed..." parody.
It has also made me think how we are cheated by our empathic nature into thinking that a rock with eyes resembles us. And also how we still, when something is difficult to comprehend rationally we jump swiftly to considerations rooted on fears and/or collective cultural narratives (in this case sci-fi, but really it's just like myths before).
Sometimes I think that a lot of the fears about AGI are based around the notion of consciousness can be separated from the body. I believe the Cartesian thought of a mind without a body dominates the current conception and as such, when something resembles (at least in output) those characteristics of the mind we jump and think that is similar enough to consciousness. However human beings IMO are as much body as they are mind and consciousness is made through both of them (think muscle memory).
I'm currently reading Sophus Helle's version of Gilgamesh and what a read! Love that in the preface he mentions how his translation is more focused on doing a literary rendition rather than an academic one (ie. trying to imitate the alliteration). The essays on the book are also a perfect balance between encyclopedic info written in a lightweight tone.
The situation of SVB and that specific start-up ecosystem also makes me think that any system (not only computer ones) is as strong as its weakest link.
One thing that is very interesting for me is that had the SVB situation happened some years ago I would have thought of it as something only affecting people in San Francisco, but today it's the dinner's topic with my girlfriend here in Mexico City because we both work at start-ups based in the US.
And I guess that's the case for people in other countries too who now work this way.
And I guess that's the case for people in other countries too who now work this way.
Causal Islands"I come from a centuries-old village, that is part of a millennia-old culture, that is nestled within a million-year-old mountain range on the western coast of The Levant.
I am stressed out that the Macromedia Flash games I made as a teenager no longer run after 20 short years.
Dang, it really makes me lose faith in humanity seeing that the piece of shit that is Twitter's CEO has fans.
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