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January 14, 2025
“AIs can’t be any smarter than the people who create them. We can code in all the crazy maths and theories we want, but we can’t make an AI do things that we don’t understand ourselves.
In many ways, the idea of a shared stock of genes drifting through the galaxy is far easier to accept than the daunting notion that none of us may ever have the intellectual capacity to understand how life truly works.
Tweaking your body, it’s all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside. Not that you have to tweak to get that feeling. Like me, I like to decorate myself, but my body already fits with who I am. But some modders, they’ll keep changing themselves their entire lives. And it doesn’t always work out. Sometimes they seriously mess themselves up. But that’s the risk you take in trying to be more than the little box you’re born into. Change is always dangerous.� He tapped her arm. “You’re Rosemary Harper. You chose that name because the old one didn’t fit anymore. So you
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Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.
The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.�
