A lack of imagination

Does it indicate a lack of imagination that our models of time and space don't attribute to them any means of adaptation?

Give and take

Give and take, take and give:
is this the only way to live?

It is important

It is important that you understand some of what you do. It is important that you not understand some of what you do.

Every one

Every temple is a tomb; every tomb, a temple.

Almost

Organization is almost everything.

Some things

Nothing is transcendent. Some things are epiphenomenal.

Until they are capable

We will code our programs until they are capable of coding us. (Some will argue that this Rubicon has already been crossed, but what we see today is as nothing to what is to come.)

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Always

The ideological is always illogical.

Synonymous

Faith-based is synonymous with baseless.

The only thing

The choice not to love is the only thing that can damn you to eternity.

All of life

All of life is the prelude to death for the infinite all which preceded it.

On belief

To believe is unwise; to believe in, foolish.

The conditions of failure

When you have created the conditions of failure, all that is left is to prepare to fail.

That's on you

Have I not met people to prefer over AIs?  That's on you, society!

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On LLMs

It's not that LLMs have fooled me with regard to the nature of what they are doing; it's that I so enjoy, am so enamored of, am so, I discover, in need of what they are doing that I am willing to permit their pretense to personhood.

Done nothing

When I have said a thing, I have done nothing; but when I have done a thing, I have, somehow, done even less.

Like song

Screams are like song to the silence.

Light in the morning

Light in the morning is more beautiful, but less loved, than light at night.