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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Headline*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:18 pm

* "Rhymes with . . . ."

Charade: Rhymes with “Ice-Nine”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:35 am

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Red Riding Hood: The Katowice Version

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:47 pm

Comment:

The above date — Jan. 3, 2021 — suggests posts now tagged "Ice Stone."

See also the comments below (click to enlarge).

A Midrash for Chatbots

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:41 am

"Some obviously very irrelevant and wildly nonsensical
interpretations that are not worth serious comment
are being put forward all the time."

— Fritz Senn, "Quoint a quincidence (Finnegans Wake 299.8)."
James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Spring, 1970), pp. 210-217

Indeed they are.

Erewhon Devs

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:16 am

A perhaps more subtle vibe —

Wikipedia on Erewhon

The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.

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