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Once again, I repeat: we are not our thoughts. We are the awareness the thoughts are arising to and within. Most thoughts don’t matter, and some thoughts really don’t matter. Every moment we invest in our unwanted thoughts, every ounce of energy we put into trying to disprove them, is a morsel of time and energy wasted. We are validating and strengthening what’s insignificant—a strange, albeit noisy blip in a flawed system.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
It's scale that attracts the impatient flows of venture capital, and scale that underpins claims about emergent superintelligence. In the eyes of AI's advocates there are no social, environmental or planetary limits. Indeed, they argue for going further and faster because only AI can save us from the climate crisis and cure all human disease.
Decomputing as Resistance
Dan McQuillan
I probably come across more perspectives in a single Twitter session than my great grandparents heard in their entire lifetimes.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
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