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Beyond just giving us the story behind OpenAI, Karen Hao argues for a framework to view AI as a possible empire, that currently is grabbing land and resources from our communities. She does an excellent job explaining why it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way, and what decisions lead OpenAI down this path, all while making it still an interesting read, full of little tidbits and quotes that make you gasp a little. There were times I thought it was a bit longer than necessary, but overall a great nonfiction read.
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
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Sharing the Te Hiku story is an important way to end:
“What I reject is the dangerously notion that broad benefit from AI can only be derived from—indeed, will ever emerge from—a vision for the technology that requires the complete capitulation of our privacy, our agency, and our worth”
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me reading these psychopathic tech folks eating each other alive
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Thought this was a fun description to share in this quest forum, from A Minor Chorus, since it imagines a person inside (!) punctuation:
“Suppose a body were trapped between two parentheses, I thought, made out to be an aside, a distraction, a trace of another narrative possibility. Would you set it free, set it lose on the world?”
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My mother gave this to me unexpectedly. It's apparently a favorite of my aunt, who is a middle school english teacher. So far, I LOVE Kingsolver's style. It's rich and descriptive without being purple and delightfully clever. The themes she's exploring are fascinating and the narrative draws one in instantly. i wish i could stay up all night to finish this lolllll
Adah is by far my favorite of the sisters. I love her fixation on palindromes, it's such a unique trait that totally makes sense for her character. Lowkey have a feeling shes gonna be the one to die though :-/
Ruth May hasn't been mentioned in so long that I momentarily thought I had missed a chapter featuring her death somehow. Obviously this was not the case, it makes sense that she's not doing much right now as she's quite literally 5 years old. However, her POV is fascinating; I hope to hear from Ruth May again.
There's a wealth of symbolism that I'm too early in the book to understand that is nevertheless notable. The bone china platter, Methuselah and poisonwood all come to mind. It'll be exciting to see the motifs develop further down the line.
Overall im obsessed and i expect to finish it in 2-3 buisness days. if it stays this good all the way through im gonna tell my ap lit teacher about it for sure :-)
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Someone come read A Minor Chorus with me!! I’m the only one in the forum 😅
I think the weird punctuation is just that there are no quotation marks, it’s taken me 37% to have some opinion as to why that makes sense for this book. An interesting read, the narrator is quite academic and meandering, but seems like a good story underneath.
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Wondering now, is the lack of quotations because half the time the narrator is talking to other people, they’re also talking to us and themselves at the same time? It’s an interesting setup that I can’t tell whether the narrator is writing the book we’re reading, or if this is just stream of consciousness, or if it’s really first person and they are actually saying these things out loud.
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My first book that I picked because of a quest! And thoughts:
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I couldn’t remember which quest it’s part of, and then found it’s from the quest about unusual use of punctuation- literally didn’t notice that the author wasn’t using quotation marks for all of the dialogue, so I guess they’re doing it well!
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Can tell this is going to tug at the heart. “Our ancestors literally survived genocide… few, especially those in power, allow that knowledge to alter how they act”
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A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
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stories that break convention and will convince you that maybe we don't need punctuation like we think we do
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A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
0trisarahtops commented on trisarahtops's review of A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
This is not your emotional, life-changing walk in the woods story, it’s two guys who are definitely not ready for the AT making a pretty solid attempt. Bryson seems like he could be a jerk some times with his descriptions of humans, but has a deep appreciation for the wilderness and the AT, and it was a fun read. I also now know way too many ways to die in the woods.
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This is not your emotional, life-changing walk in the woods story, it’s two guys who are definitely not ready for the AT making a pretty solid attempt. Bryson seems like he could be a jerk some times with his descriptions of humans, but has a deep appreciation for the wilderness and the AT, and it was a fun read. I also now know way too many ways to die in the woods.
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I don't know. Is it worth while? I mean a ficus who's in love with a human? Pleas give me advice
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