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‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?’ – from Mary Oliver’s [*Long Life*](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fa%2F80028%2F9780306814129/1/0100018c7ea4f5e0-fd8f228b-9b6e-4063-8bc8-cab819a64530-000000/4eb0XsY5xotzt2mbncPLvNRTT1wlDUi7nj7NQlSHB8s=331).
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Dense Discovery
There’s a practical limit to how much data we can collect; there is the possibility that exceeding the limit may not be enough; and there is data we may never think to collect or be able to (such as data on the cumulative advantages or disadvantages of granting bail). Since none of this deters companies “from selling AI for making consequential decisions about people by predicting their future,” the authors insist we must resist “the AI snake oil that’s already in wide use today” instead of pining for better predictive AI technology.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
When we behold those deeply-furrowed hollows in which glaciers have lain, we think it hardly possible that a time will come when a wooded, grassy valley, watered by streams, will spread itself out upon the same spot. So it is, too, in the history of mankind: the most savage forces beat a path, and are mainly destructive; but their work was none-the-less necessary, in order that later a gentler civilization might raise its house. The frightful energies – those which are called evil – are the cyclopean architects and road-makers of humanity.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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