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Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations of human approval,” because this is what they were historically trained to seek (kind of like how humans sometimes do whatever it takes to get drugs that will get their brains into certain states).
How We Could Stumble Into AI Catastrophe
Cold Takes
As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved. It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
Now try tapping `n` to both highlight and start a note on the focused paragraph. When the side panels are hidden, those annotations will appear as beautiful marginalia.
Getting Started With Reader
Daniel Doyon
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