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  1. Jan 2025
    1. Sacredness puts us into contact with the Numinous, which basically exposes us to what is horrifying. At least at the limits of us, because it has an aspect of awe with a little bit more which is to remind us - humiliation in the original sense of the word - to keep us, to give us humility to remember that as we are feeling that sense of expansiveness with awe that we are precisely, ultimately, limited creatures

      for - adjacency - coexistence of the infinite and the finite - Daisetz Suzuki and the Zen Koan "The elbow does not bend backwards" - Meaning crisis episode 35 - The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred - John Vervaeke

  2. May 2023
    1. Kate Darling wrote a great book called The New Breed where she argues we should think of robots as animals – as a companion species who compliments our skills. I think this approach easily extends to language models.

      Kate Darling (MIT, Econ/Law from Uni Basel and ETH ZH) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Darling http://www.katedarling.org/ https://octodon.social/@grok

      antilibrary add [[The New Breed by Kate Darling]] 2021 https://libris.nl/boek?authortitle=kate-darling/the-new-breed--9781250296115#

      Vgl the 'alloys' in [[Meru by S.B. Divya]]

  3. Oct 2020