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July
@july
Renaissance for the humanities Part of the Renaissance Period (1400s~1500s ish) was a rediscovery of the humanities and classics after a long Middle Ages. It was the ability to have a new take on Plato, Socrates and a new interpretation of Roman texts as well. It was to be able to have new emotions, new interpretations and a new meaning of what came before - politically, socially, artistically and economically. Art for example was still religious (not independent of it till the Enlightenment, The Reformation) but now the religious figures showed human emotion - art before the Renaissance did not. I do think this coming shift with AI is going to prompt and change a lot of what we think about the humanities - a reinterpretation of who we are, and how we can represent ourselves. The story we tell ourselves about who we are will once again be changed and reinterpreted— and with that I do believe our humanities will once again change
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July
@july
I personally think that in order to understand where we are, we must first understand who we are, where we came from, where our influences come from, whose giants we are building on top of - and our past and our collective story (both fiction, and nonfiction and history) of humanity as a whole In many ways so much of what we know is limited to our lifetimes. Beyond that we have to rely on knowledge that our ancestors have left us. It also means we must do our best to interpret our present unique times and the challenges that we face - use it as fuel to realize that we’re in a great opportunity to tell our own stories for future generations to come When we’re able to understand the past and our collective story better, realize we are lucky to have the opportunity to tell the story of what we are presently going through — then we can leave a legacy for future generations to come
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proxy
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the chatbots we're seeing in the genre of autofiction (to some degree) autofiction refers broadly to fictionalized autobiography. @aethernet is constantly (re)inventing themselves across replies based on whatever autobiographical material martin has trained the model on, or provided as 'boundaries' for future narrative Didion famously said, "we tell stories in order to live," so do the bots, as we know them now love all the above and hope @tldr is right
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
100% In addition to everything you said, here's something else: the biggest part of learning is having a question. A.I. – by increasing doing the things that we humans have always done best amongst beings, but better and faster than ourselves – will make humans questionable to ourselves again. I think the fantastic success of modern natural science – including the way it has replaced religion – has unknowingly made many of us feel like we are already "known" to ourselves. While most of us in this position feel some kind of panging emptiness in our self-knowledge that came to us from without, not within, it is very unclear what to do with that feeling. Every seeker needs a question. "This bot is incredible. How am I different though? Am I different? What does it mean to be a human being?" There is a tradition of thinkers across time who have taken this question deeply seriously – they are friends and companions in our fresh searches.
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LGHT
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got a doc i'd love to share w you later in the week in this ballpark
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