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"The one thing I don’t understand about technology is it’s ability to change without request. I don’t understand how, for a non-tech example, I can put a brick on a table in a controlled environment, lock the door and of course the brick just sits there. Then one undefined amount of time later I come back and the brick has decided to be a cupcake and chill in the corner."
My wife, prior to being together, 2006: daniel.industries/2006/12/13/vagaries-not-really/
"[AI works] will be identical in presentation, perhaps even superior, but entirely devoid of soul, cynically undermining the need for matters of the spirit, the sacred, the divine. 'What is the purpose of the soul?' they scorn. 'What is its material use?' These are the questions that ring out like a final hollow bell tolling at the end of a civilisation, where the last threads of meaning have been severed and discarded."
