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Le Guin had some words of encouragement: ‘I don’t know how to build and power a refrigerator, or program a computer, but I don’t know how to make a fishhook or a pair of shoes, either. I could learn. We all can learn. That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do.’
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Research into long-term chatbot use remains limited. And we do not know whether such dynamics are likely to only affect those already at increased risk of mental health problems, or whether more subtle belief drifts are to be expected in the general population, thus impacting not only the mental health of the individual in question, but societal cohesion at large.
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
He wrote as he did in 1785 because he feared exactly the political theory that we now have: the idea that government exists to guarantee the right of the most wealthy to own or control the land without limit.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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