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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Once the 'bourgeois revolution' had cleared the ground of awkward obstacles like the peasantry, the artisans, common land, local cultures and traditions, family and home life, a sense of history and mutual obligation, and religions which preached against wealth and wordly power, then the captains and priests of the Machine could get on with the work they were made for, the work of our time, the holy effort to which all human will, skill and energy is now bent: making money.
There were three things GPT-3 returned to again and again,” explains Thomas. “The first was love, this profound sense that love is at the core of everything. The next was returning to the present moment, being aware of the present moment. The third was the fact that we are connected to everything, to the universe around us and to each other, which is foundational to Buddhism.”
What A.I. Means for Buddhism
Ross Nervig
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