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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … and the distinction between true and false … no longer exist. [The regime must continually manufacture this condition because reality keeps reasserting itself.]"

- Hannah Arendt

"God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness[...] And He gave her wisdom from heaven to lead to the all-righteous path, and placed in the depth of her heart an eye that sees the unseen, and created in her an affection and goodness toward all things. He dressed her with raiment of hopes spun by the angels of heaven from the sinews of the rainbow"

- Gibran, Kahlil. Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

"Then God took consuming fire from the furnace of anger, and searing wind from the desert of ignorance, and sharp cutting sands from the shore of selfishness, and coarse earth from under the feet of ages, and combined them all and fashioned Man. He gave to Man a blind power that rages and drives him into a madness which extinguishes only before gratification of desire, and placed life in him which is the spectre of death. And God laughed and cried. He felt an overwhelming love and pity for Man, and sheltered him beneath His guidance."

- Gibran, Kahlil. Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

a-quiet-green-agreement

"How should we live?" he asked. "I mean how should we eat and manage?"

"As the birds do," said the girl.

– Robert Aickman, The Stains

"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- W. B. Yeats (1865 –1939)

Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986)

#star trek

Watchmen, 2009, Directed by Zack Snyder

#watchmen

"There must be some way out of here" Said the joker to the thief "There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line Know what any of it is worth

"No reason to get excited" The thief, he kindly spoke "There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late"

All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants too Outside, in the distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching The wind began to howl

#bob dylan #all along the watchtower

We'll need universal basic income - AI 'godfather'

The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”.

“I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said.

He said while he felt AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that’s going to be very bad for society”. BBC News, Original Article

#universal basic income #the times they are achanging #artificial intelligence

mythologyofblue

“The only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”

-Daniel Mason, North Woods

"I told you that Man possessed a basically incomprehensible nature. His perceptions were organic; yours are not. As a result of His perceptions He had feelings and emotions. These often gave rise to other feelings and emotions, which in turn caused others, until the state of His awareness was far removed from the objects which originally stimulated it. These paths of awareness cannot be known by that which is not-Man. Man did not feel inches or meters, pounds or gallons. He felt fear, He felt cold; He felt heaviness and lightness. He knew hatred and love, pride and despair. You cannot measure these things. You cannot know them. You can only know the things that He did not need to know: dimensions, weights, temperatures, gravities. There is no formula for a feeling. There is no conversion factor for an emotion."

— Now For a Breath I Tarry, Roger Zelazny, 1966

Mordel: Regard this piece of ice, mighty Frost. You can tell me its composition, dimensions, weight, temperature. A Man could not look at it and do that. A Man could make tool which would tell Him these things,but He still would not know measurement as you know it. What He would know of it, though, is a thing that you cannot know. Frost: What is that? Mordel: That it is cold. -- Now For a Breath I Tarry, Roger Zelazny, 1966

[Professor Hobby asks Mecha, Secretary Sheila, what is love] Professor Hobby: Tell me. What is love? Secretary: Love is first widening my eyes a little bit... and quickening my breathing a little... and warming my skin and touching my... Professor Hobby: And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.

— AI: Artificial Intelligence, 2001, Directed by Steven Spielberg

"Humans tried to develop intelligent machines as secondary reflex systems, turning over primary decisions to mechanical servants. Gradually, though, the creators did not leave enough to do for themselves; they began to feel alienated, dehumanized, and even manipulated. Eventually humans became little more than decisionless robots themselves, left without an understanding of their natural existence."

Frank Herbert, Legends of Dune Issue #1, 1999

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