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The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Joh...

Paul didn’t believe that he “was” his original. He knew he was nothing but a cloud of ambiguous data. The miracle was that he was capable of believing that he existed at all. What gave him that sense of identity? Continuity. Consistency. Thought following thought in a coherent pattern. But where did that coherence come from?

Permutation City

Greg Egan

But for now it’s exciting to see what ChatGPT has already been able to do. At some level it’s a great example of the fundamental scientific fact that large numbers of simple computational elements can do remarkable and unexpected things. But it also provides perhaps the best impetus we’ve had in two thousand years to understand better just what the fundamental character and principles might be of that central feature of the human condition that is human language and the processes of thinking behind it.

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

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