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AI should be considered intelligence that’s simply learned for a very long time in human years, due to the way training works. So in terms of training time, something like GPT is thousands of years old, and anyone using an AI in an integrated way, like Magnus Carlsen learning his chess skills in a feedback loop with chess AIs, is effectively hundreds of years old.
Oozy Intelligence in Slow Time
Ribbonfarm Studio
The signs of whether a cutting has rooted or not is to look for the new growth. If it shows new growth - lush like this - then there's every possibility that it has rooted.
Summer Prune and Spring Follow Up
Herons Bonsai
In an essay describing hunter-gatherer peoples with few possessions as the original affluent society, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins reminds us that, "modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world's wealthiest peoples. The shortage is due not to how much material wealth there actually is, but to the way in which it is exchanged or circulated.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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