Category: artificial intelligence
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Eternal Recurrence
Deconstruction continued…. I read Also Sprach Zarathustra because John Gardner’s Mickelsson’s Ghosts—a novel I’ve read numerous times—made references to Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, and eternal recurrence. The idea that we are doomed to relive events in our lives over and over frightens me. I shudder to think of a life of…
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Did I solve your problem?
Nothing makes me want to wrap my head in foil, pack up my goodies, and head for the hills like AI powered “Customer Service.” Today, I had the rare and incomparable pleasure of trying to get our cable provider to replace a broken TV remote, which, in another era, would…
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The Moving Finger
The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. (From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald) Sometimes, I walk past a mirror…
