Category: Found objects
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Ice-cream wild.
“Let the case for the destruction of the earth rest. We are smothered with facts. They are both depressing and endless. What is unsettling is that we are all so apathetic.The social reasons for our apathy are numerous: religious traditions such as Christianity and Buddhism that glorify acceptance and condemn emotion (particularly anger) and judgment;…
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AI manipulates language, but it does not think.
Without diving too deep into the linguistic weeds here, the upshot is that human beings, as a species, benefit tremendously from using language to share our knowledge, both in the present and across generations. Understood this way, language is what the cognitive scientist Cecilia Heyes calls a “cognitive gadget” that “enables humans to learn from…
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