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All my mania for culture, for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, what if it’s all a form of vanity, or even worse, a little bandage over the initial wound of my origins? I have put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it’s impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all. And I look back across that gulf, not with a sense of guilt or loss, but with relief and satisfaction. Am I better than they are? Certainly not, although maybe luckier.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
If people want AI to have more intelligence, what they need is not to build AI systems with a greater capacity for intelligence. It is to build them with a greater capacity to engage with one another. AI needs a mechanism for culture.
I mean, letting AI build its own culture. What could go wrong?
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The protocolic and programmatic truth which now expresses itself everywhere in culture, the economy, and politics is that *only in a society that is so densely and exhaustively networked can lives be so multiply and intensely disconnected from one another and alone*.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
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