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As a [metaphor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor), the tragedy of the commons should not be taken too literally. The "tragedy" is not in the word's conventional or theatric sense, nor a condemnation of the processes that lead to it. Similarly, Hardin's use of "commons" has frequently been misunderstood, leading him to later remark that he should have titled his work "The Tragedy of the Unregulated Commons".[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-22)[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHardin1998-23)
Tragedy of the Commons
wikipedia.org
Even the people who know how the sausage gets made don’t really want to read about it in the paper.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
When Max asked ChatGPT to help him out with the sprinkler at the park, the model wasn’t just spewing text. The photograph of the plumbing was compressed, along with Max’s prompt, into a vector that captured its most important features. That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts. Those ideas, in turn, called up others as the model built up a sense of the situation. It composed its response with those ideas “in mind.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
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