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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other … you have the choice: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief … or as much displeasure as possible as the price for the growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet? If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
AI is not quite there,” he says. “These systems lack what’s being referred to as second-level context. [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt) or something like it doesn’t take the extra step of confirming the things it says. Right now, these chatbots dispense what experts call coherent nonsense. That feels dangerous.”
What A.I. Means for Buddhism
Ross Nervig
Caring for the goods of a worthwhile domain and cultivating the skill for revealing meaningful distinctions within it are necessary for resisting the technological way of life. But you can’t just decide to care about a domain, any more than you can make a decision about whom to love. How is anyone to discover what is worth caring about?
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
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