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"Are we disaffected because things are so bad or have they gotten bad because we’re so disaffected?"
@AlexWStern on the world of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude:
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"Our language did not evolve for scientific or metaphysical purposes, but just to help us make do and get along in the real world."
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“To really understand language, LLMs would have to be capable of being born.”
Here’s someone who really knows their stuff drawing on the writing (and spirit) of Wittgenstein to expose the abject shortcomings of chatbots as substitute humans
"It is no accident that interest in this new science of consciousness has exploded as participation in mainstream religion has plummeted." good review of new Michael Pollan consciousness book by TM Luhrmann in @amscholar
"A turn away from this imperial arrogance would be a conversion like no other in American history."
George Scialabba writes on America's criminal war in Iran:
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WOW: #Ravens are LIVID that tight end Isaiah Likely's catch was somehow NOT CALLED A TOUCHDOWN.
😳😳😳
The original call on the field was that this was a touchdown.
Likely took two steps in the end zone.
This could cost Baltimore the game.
"I guess I’m at the end of my life, of course, but am I at the end of the road in terms of faith? I have no idea."
Martin Scorsese sits down with our own @AlexWStern to discuss filmmaking, religion, and ‘The Saints’:
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