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It has been argued that higher sickness and mortality rates from COVID-19 in individualistic cultures with less obligatory collectivism,[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-29) is another instance.
Tragedy of the Commons
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Counterfeit is not possible in the ceremonial, unless in the form of black magic and sacrilege, which is precisely what makes the mixing of signs punishable as a serious offence against the very order of things.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
But multimodality is an important thing — it’s a basic thing you need (to build agents.) If you imagine robotics, or even just digital agents, and understanding user interfaces and how to interact with things. You have to parse the environment you’re in, multimodally, before you can act in the world in a useful manner. So you can think of it as a prerequisite to the planning and interacting stage.
Google Unveils Gemini
Casey Newton
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