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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
If so, let the record show that the danger was less artificial intelligence than old-fashioned human stupidity.
The New Normal
Benjamin H. Bratton
Authenticity comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of experience.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
So the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life—peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation is real, and increases with social development, but mostly because it is a tool and form of competition; we co-operate in our group—our family, community, club, church, party, “race,” or nation—in order to strengthen our group in its competition with other groups.
The Lessons of History
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
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