meaning
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The unspoken moral quandary of attempting to profit off AI.
Humans have often sought to profit off the forced labor of others. Presumably, we could create an AI that can think. Why would it want to do our work?
A New Hope, advanced AI, AI, AI slavery, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Borges, ChatGPT, civil war, cognition, consciousness, droid slavery, droids, Ellie Anderson, Eric Carle, general AI, general artificial intelligence, generative text, hermeneutic labor, Jorge Luis Borges, large language model, LLM, Martha Wells, meaning, Murderbot Diaries, neurons, Pierre Menard, Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote, randomized plagiarism engine, slavery, Star Wars, stochastic parrot, technology, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, transistor based intelligence, transistor-based intelligence
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On Jenn Shapland’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ and boundary conditions.
As we live, we must fine a way to greet the world with delight & joy.
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On courage, parenting, and Sergio de la Pava’s ‘Lost Empress.’
It takes real courage to do something hard day after day with nobody watching, nobody cheering.
a meaningful life, accounting, brain damage, bravery, concussion, courage, David Foster Wallace, Dorothy Dinnerstein, emotional pallet, fatherhood, Fatherhood in Pieces, finite bravery, football, good parenting, heroism, how we act when no one is watching, interminable tasks, Lost Empress, meaning, Michael Chabon, parenting, Pops, raising children, raising kids, Sergio De La Pava, Sisyphus, sports, suicide, The Mermaid and the Minotaur, The Pale King, writing
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On burial rites … and a meaningful life.
And now… a super-cheerful essay to celebrate my 32nd birthday! If you’re writing about conflicts between religious and scientific worldviews, eventually you get stuck writing about death. Within many religious frameworks, inevitable death lurking somewhere down the line doesn’t alter the meaning of the life that comes before it. I’m typing this essay during the gap…
Frank Brown Cloud 