It has been some time since I last wrote to you... The news leaves little room for hope, at least in its daily flow, carrying various whiffs of which I will spare you excessive details...
This time, we are there. It came to an end, this year 2023 which nothing can describe better, it seems to me, than the famous quote from Antonio Gramsi: "The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters..."
"One emotion to rule them all, and in darkness bind them..."
Among the great challenges/perils of our time... these SA (°) which usurp the title of AI, already mentioned in a previous post, are becoming more and more invasive, and have undoubtedly just reached a new stage of development in the form of so-called "generative AI"... What are the challenges?...
Very interesting illustration, from the Soviet era... So, this seems almost universally recognized. And therefore reversible. Everyone is ready to be sorry that the others have been deceived (or allowed themselves to be deceived)... And it is despairing that it is so difficult to make them understand it (become aware of it)...
"There is no ideal society, because there are no ideal men or ideal women to make it. If a woman believes she finds the ideal man in a man, we can say that she lacks both experience and imagination, the latter depending on the former. For a woman, the ideal man, for a man, the ideal woman, can only be,...
"Maybe one day, archaeologists from another planet will have the idea of erecting a monument in our memory. If this were to be the case, they could not choose a better epitaph than this: here lies a species endowed with intelligence, extinct for lack of knowing how to use it..." This is what John Brunner wrote, in the introduction to...