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Amazon could treat its workers better and stop self-dealing in adjacent markets with its own products, and its business model would still be Amazon. (3/)
Stephen, Why Are You So...
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Four sentences, then, before I stop.
We follow a God who did not stay in the cloud of heaven. He took on flesh, and walked among us, and let us nail Him to a tree.
We follow a God who did not send an algorithm. He sent His Son.
We follow a God who did not optimise. He loved.
We follow a God who did not solve the problem of human suffering by abolishing suffering, but by entering it.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears out in a rat race it runs against itself.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
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