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“When I was a kid, I was nobody. I mean, literally, other kids didn’t even notice I existed. Whatever it was that made kids like each other, I didn’t have any of that, at all. None. You hear stories about girls who ‘become pretty’....

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“The guys won’t admit it, but every single one of them wishes they could… go ahead. Finish that sentence in your mind.” — Bobby Yingo at the Taupe Room

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I have a friend who, when I speak about nonhuman intelligences… or nonordinary situations, demands evidence. “Show me,” he says. I understand what he’s requesting. Yet I don’t think he can yet understand… that the aspect of his...

001769

“I went out this afternoon to obtain a slice of pizza. It was expensive, and I waited in line a long time to get it. I was really hungry. They handed it to me in a paper bag, which is absurd. Why the hell do I need a paper bag for a slice of pizza I am going to...

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“But ‘what’ is AI? It’s not what we’re thinking and pretending it is. That’s an ostensible fact, because, we have created something that is an entirely new »category of ‘stuff that exists’. When we do that, the meaning...