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If it is foolish to think that we can carry with us all the good things from the past—from our personal past or that of our culture—while leaving behind all the unwanted baggage, it is a counsel of despair and, I think, another kind of foolishness to think that if we leave behind the errors and miseries of the past, we must also leave behind everything that gave that world its savor. Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
Predictive AI imposes fundamental limits on predictive systems. Automated systems cannot account for the impact of automated decisions; are trained on preexisting datasets generated by one population but applied to different ones; and, when kept low-cost (human-free), often preserve or intensify discrimination—encouraging people to game the supposedly fair, objective, and accurate system.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Félix Ravaisson, the vitalist philosopher whose Of Habit remains one of the most in-depth treatises on the phenomenon, deems habit a form of grace, one that allows humans, who are burdened with consciousness and will, to take part in the spontaneity of the natural world.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
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