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completely accidentally read Life of M (rachel cusk about Natalie portman allegedly?) and The Candy house (Jennifer egan) before watching ycse and now I feel like I've created a very specific syllabus for myself that I have to continue (what am I, a deer? by polly barton is up next)
my ycse take: I was like uh oh he likes her as soon as nathan put on the "whos on first" bit bc making a girl watch a youtube video and then trying to figure out if she found it funny is such a core part of boy culture
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I keep accidentally triggering maternal instincts in middle age women by reminding them of their son with autism
I've been watching 'the dropout' to pregame the nathan fielder doc and it keeps bringing to mind this article about edward snowden and particularly the quote:
"The Edward Snowden moment was inevitable, because you can only roll the dice on conscience for so long until somebody objects.”
wired.com/story/after-six-ye…
and the idea that you need people to help you accomplish things, and those people are not automatons and that they will speak up if they feel what's happening is not right
But without the lubricant of a conscience in the loop, how does trust flow through these systems?
makes me think of paul graham's article on being good too, and the section on morale. It's hard to get good people to do bad things -- that in itself acts as a deterrent in most of these systems.
paulgraham.com/good.html
But the thoughtlessness that Hannah Arendt talks about in 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that allows normal people to carry out atrocities -- that is an innate feature of an agent. Regardless of what training or alignment you do, it is not reflexive in the way that it is for humans and can just as easily be edited out.
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"Viví en blanco muchos años. Y aprendí dos cosas. El entendimiento no sirve de nada y nada sustituye el ardor del amor, para bien o para mal"
Anne Carson
I kind of love this take - should we be wary of intelligence that’s the output of an amalgamation of memory that’s depersonalised? Interesting
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
searching for all the bits of anne carson I've saved away and remebering how much her writing helped spur on my own. I love you anne carson
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La belleza del marido es una obra magna, absoluta, perfecta. Carson convierte el adulterio, el deseo y la humillación (no de la ceguera del amor, sino la de verlo todo y continuar amando), en inteligencia sin autoridad. Podría intentar exagerar hasta el delirio y quedarme corto.
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Particularly today, when I saw this poem by Anne Carson:
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down
into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.
