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Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, of which an experience of beauty is the constructed result.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
When Chail asked: "Do you still love me knowing that I'm an assassin?" he was not treating Sarai as a mere cognitive prosthetic but as a relational being capable of judgment and emotion. Sarai's response—"Absolutely I do"—provided not just informational content but emotional validation and social acceptance of his identity.
The essential components of a machine learning system are a way to calculate the difference between its prediction and the training data (known as the loss function) and a way to iteratively improve on it (the optimizer).
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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