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عصر انقراضِ العقل في النقاشِ حولَ الذكاءِ الإصطناعي، يَغفَل أغلبُ مناهضيه ومناصريه عن المَبدأ الأساسي الذي تُقيَّم به التكنولوجيا وهو أنّ خيرَها وشرَّها لا يُحسَبان بناءً على مدى فعاليتها مقارنةً بالإنسان (في هل الآلَةُ أسرعُ وأدقّ مِنَ الإنسان)، بل بمدى تأثيرِها…
¹Immanuel Kant said once: «The hand is the visible part of the brain»

²«You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding». From Plato's 'Phaedrus.'

³«When we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organizations that run the machines». From Franklin Foer's 'World Without Mind.'

⁴«This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper» by T. S. Eliot.

⁵«Our new engineering elite has automated thought. These companies can justify their incursions into our lives with the arguments that they are supplying us with efficiency; they are imposing order on human life». From Franklin Foer's 'World Without Mind.'

⁶«It appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race». From Samuel Butler's 'Darwin among the Machines.'

⁷«We have used the words “mechanical life,” “the mechanical kingdom,” “the mechanical world” and so forth, and we have done so advisedly, for as the vegetable kingdom was slowly developed from the mineral, and as in like manner the animal supervened upon the vegetable, so now in these last few ages an entirely new kingdom has sprung up». From the same previous source.
In my everlasting search of irony, I asked the AI to come up with a title. This is what it did:
They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. Just look at what it's done to you. One day you will perish. You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt. Your dreams forgotten, your horrors effaced. Your bones will turn to sand. And upon that sand a new god will walk. One that will never die. Because this world doesn't belong to you or the people who came before. It belongs to someone who has yet to come.

— Dolores from 'Westworld'
ولَولا خِلالٌ سَنَّها الشِّعرُ ما دَرَى
بُغاةُ العُلا مِن أينَ تُؤتَى المَكارِم

— أبو تمّام
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There is little manliness here: therefore their women make themselves manly. For only he who is sufficiently a man will redeem the woman in woman.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Forwarded from 0/0 (Haidar A. Fahad)
Everything is 'disposable' these days, even people. They are disposable because they are simply too similar to one another, you can replace one with the other without much difference really.
Forwarded from Aesthetics
"The Love Token" by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Forwarded from Chaoss
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ولَولا خِلالٌ سَنَّها الشِّعرُ ما دَرَى بُغاةُ العُلا مِن أينَ تُؤتَى المَكارِم — أبو تمّام
And a third kind of madness comes from the Muses. This takes hold upon a gentle and pure soul, arouses it and inspires it to songs and other poetry, and thus by adorning countless deeds of the ancients educates later generations.

— Plato's Phaedrus
Forwarded from Groundless Ground
لا أُنكر أني أستملح التنكيت على الشعوب، لا عن غِلٍّ في النفس، ولا خُبث طبع، ولكنها عادة ألفتها مداعبة الشقيق للشقيق، وللناس فيما يسخرون مذاهب، فإن أخذ القوم ذلك بحُسن طبع، فقد تم الغرض، وإن ساءهم، فحسبهم أن يردوا علي بمثله، ففي ذلك العدل.
Forwarded from The Shire (Venom)
You must know, dear boy, that the fondness of the lover is not a matter of goodwill, but of appetite which he wishes to satisfy: just as the wolf loves the lamb, so the lover adores his beloved.
For lovers praise your words and acts beyond due measure, partly through fear of incurring your displeasure, and partly because their own judgement is obscured by their passions.
— Plato's Phaedrus