Power feels like protection, but it’s often just a temporary answer to a permanent question. Ansu Samanta explores the human hunger for what we cannot keep in this brilliant new post.
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If everything we build eventually crumbles, why do we chase power and wealth with such intensity?
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Open Hand, Closed City
Ricoh GR IV Monochrome
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A quotation from Alexander Smith
> To our graves we walk
> In the thick footprints of departed men.
**Alexander Smith** (1830-1867) Scottish poet
“Horton,” ll. 570-571, _City Poems_ (1857)
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More about this quote: wist.info/smith-alexander/8273…
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We carry roles.
We carry expectation.
We carry performance.
Sometimes we carry it all at once.
WHAT WE CARRY examines the tension.
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Just Published! Introduces and defends antitheodicy as an ethically superior response to suffering. Buy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3nvhzkvm @helsinki.fi #Antitheodicy #ProblemOfEvil #PhilosophyOfReligion #EthicsOfSuffering #MoralPhilosophy #SufferingAndEthics #HumanCondition
Jeffrey Szilagyi: "As we reclaim a #SacredEarth, we must also reclaim the sacred journey of #biology that has begot our #humancondition. Not just the parts that feel good & seem safe, but all of it." #RadicalWholeness #DeepEcology #SacredBalance #ShadowWork bit.ly/4hkaVA6
effrey Szilagyi: "As we reclaim a #SacredEarth, we must also reclaim the sacred journey of #biology that has begot our #humancondition. Not just the parts that feel good & seem safe, but all of it." #RadicalWholeness #DeepEcology #SacredBalance #ShadowWork bit.ly/4hkaVA6
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Good Morning my expressionist friends.
The Modern Scream
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” — Ernest Hemingway
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A color photographs taken on the streets of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. The glow of digital billboards light up the twilight ambiance. One of the billboards displays a title of a Beatles song in bold black lettering, "Love Is All You Need!" Rain on the wet pavement reflects the digital sign upside down as someone with a blue umbrella awaits the walk signal to cross the street.
Daily Random #680
“Love Is All You Need” (spread as much as you can)
Times Square/Manhattan NYC 2017
#Photography #EditorialPhotography #HumanCondition
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Listen along. Randomly Accessed Musing Tracks - OCT24 (normal sort) begins w/Neue Regel by Queensrÿche. This thought-provoker is part of their excellent early album..
#NeueRegel #Queensrÿche #RageForOrder #TechnocraticThemes #HumanCondition #ThoughtProvoking
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"Drowning in Thoughts and Prayers" 48x36 #acryliconcanvas #JoeQuinn #artist #art #painting #socialcommentary #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporary #markmaking #studiowork #theartprocess #createeveryday #gunsinamerica #governmentfailure #wecandobetter #humancondition #gunsareforkilling
Throw Away Society, aspects of the human condition.
#Photography #LandfillTrash #Litterbugs #HumanCondition
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A color poster, with title "Ten Frames #100, Two Minutes." The color photograph depicts a heap of trash stuck inside a lattice like pillar supporting the train tracks above. The prominent items that make the trash are paper cups. Of which the slideshow is about.
This week's "Ten Frames" Thursday is here.
Tackling society's inclinations.
#Photography #HumanCondition
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![What a surprise to find a comic strip on Artificial Intelligence written by somebody called Montaigne!: Marion Montaigne présente l’Intelligence artificielle: https://youtu.be/DtdoNksCtmE
Indeed, Montaigne discusses in the Essays whether the savages found mainly in Brazil are human beings or not and whether they should be considered humans, the way the barbarians in Ancient Greece have been finally recognised as such. As it is growing more and more difficult to recognise an artificial intelligence from a human being; I think reconsidering this classic is relevant as it challenges again human identity.
Montaigne Chap XXX: Of Cannibals: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2HCH0030
Montaigne et la condition humaine – France Inter : https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/un-ete-avec-montaigne/un-ete-avec-montaigne-06-juillet-2012
This point was also addressed in the film the Dispute in Valladolid, which is a reenactment of a historical event, or by Descartes with his concepts of “cogito, ergo sum” or “machina animata”.
Valladolid debate – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid_debate
Faut-il donner aux robots des droits et des devoirs? – France culture: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-numerique-et-nous/faut-il-donner-aux-robots-des-droits-et-des-devoirs-3932527
From the conquistadors until now the concept of humanity has evolved. On the other hand, what is common to humanity, at each step, from the cannibals till now; is some human beings’ will to build weapons to kill others. Each time a new science has risen, some people have tried to find out how to use it to kill (physics, biology, chemistry and now AI).
“AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of [autonomous weapons] is – practically if not legally – feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.” – The Guardian: ht…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3tr32kwlyspsmkynmz3ilot2/bafkreiehvbydthvewdsy4sqza2tcd74mj6i4kpwgiob2lxpwpkovwjvtxu)
What a surprise to find a comic strip on Artificial Intelligence written by somebody called Montaigne!: Marion Montaigne présente l’Intelligence artificielle: https://youtu.be/DtdoNksCtmE Indeed, Montaigne discusses in the Essays whether the savages found mainly in Brazil are human beings or not and whether they should be considered humans, the way the barbarians in Ancient Greece have been finally recognised as such. As it is growing more and more difficult to recognise an artificial intelligence from a human being; I think reconsidering this classic is relevant as it challenges again human identity. Montaigne Chap XXX: Of Cannibals: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2HCH0030 Montaigne et la condition humaine – France Inter : https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/un-ete-avec-montaigne/un-ete-avec-montaigne-06-juillet-2012 This point was also addressed in the film the Dispute in Valladolid, which is a reenactment of a historical event, or by Descartes with his concepts of “cogito, ergo sum” or “machina animata”. Valladolid debate – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid_debate Faut-il donner aux robots des droits et des devoirs? – France culture: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-numerique-et-nous/faut-il-donner-aux-robots-des-droits-et-des-devoirs-3932527 From the conquistadors until now the concept of humanity has evolved. On the other hand, what is common to humanity, at each step, from the cannibals till now; is some human beings’ will to build weapons to kill others. Each time a new science has risen, some people have tried to find out how to use it to kill (physics, biology, chemistry and now AI). “AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of [autonomous weapons] is – practically if not legally – feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.” – The Guardian: ht…
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It would be easy to reduce these tears to simple expressions of either happiness or sadness. But if we recognize the deeper well they are drawn from, the implications for what happens next are much more troubling. You can't just wipe away that feeling of rupture, or the decades of fear that preceded it. People become comfortable with the reality they know; they will mourn even an abusive father, and might require a lifetime to overcome the abuse. Even those who unreservedly despised him, but had no other leader, might not know what to look for in an alternative, or whether to trust a good steward if one comes along.
Why people shed tears for tyrants: Both loyalists and dissidents cried over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. This common reaction to a dictator’s demise is a symptom of the damage they do. archive.ph/VWZ7M By
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Is everything metaphor?
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#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #language #metaphor #grammar
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"Drowning in Thoughts and Prayers" #JoeQuinn #artist #art #acrylicpainting #acryliconcanvas #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #socialcommentary #visualart #visualartist #visuallanguage #gunsinamerica #governmentfailure #wecandobetter #humancondition #politicalart #America #guns #linework #paint
What happens when curiosity outruns wisdom?
Lucius Apuleius’ 2nd-century masterpiece, The Golden Ass, explores the human condition trapped in the animalistic. A journey from accidental donkey to spiritual seeker.
Read the full deep-dive:
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'If you can’t tell, does it matter?' Who remembers this line from HBO's Westworld, season 1?
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I argue that it applies to LLMs nowadays.
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Unasailable logic.
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