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Reductionism doesn’t necessarily mean that large things are made of small things that are more real than large things. Sometimes we can reduce small things to large things.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The deep learning pioneers, the ones who stuck with it in the wilderness years, believe that better neural network architectures will eventually lead to a re-creation of all aspects of human intelligence, including symbolic manipulation, causal inference and common sense (Dickson, 2021).
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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