"The feeling that members of one’s own species deserve special moral consideration as compared with members of other species is old and deep.
[...]
Whether the ethic of ‘speciesism’, to use Richard Ryder’s term, can be put on a logical footing any more sound than that of ‘racism’, I do not know. What I do know is that it has no proper basis in evolutionary biology"
-- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
In 1923, a cartoonist depicted a fictional machine that would generate ideas and draw them as cartoons automatically.
A century later, today's image-synthesis and large language models are approaching this once fantastic prediction: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/a-cartoonist-predicted-2023s-ai-drawing-machines-in-1923/?utm_brand=ars
📸: Paleofuture
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Original tweet : https://nitter.42l.fr/arstechnica/status/1623552653841301504
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
-- Frank Herbert, Dune [The Ecology of Dune]
Oh hey look, another charging network in the works that's open to all EVs. Weird what can happen when there's a real charging standard that every* automaker agrees on.
*except That One
Power has poisoned academia - UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2022/12/power-has-poisoned-academia/
