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Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
Time was not a line unrolling in front of her. It was a column of concentric circles with herself at the core and the present floating outward along the outermost rim.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
That Gemini’s release could become a fiasco is the fiasco: Generative models should not be invested with the capability to arbitrate reality, and any discussion that forwards that idea shifts more power to the companies that amass the data and build the models. The only knowledge that models produce is about the composition of their training data and the methods they use to process and organize it. Those methods don’t reflect anything about how the world itself works.
Practico-Inertia
Rob Horning
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