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Artificial intelligence

• A.I. is built on surveillance. It is a product of the surveillance business model.
  • Meredith Whittaker, in "What the President of Signal Wishes You Knew About A.I. Panic" (archived), Lizzie O'Leary, Slate (2023-05-16)

Surveillance

• I had $40,000 in the bank, and no one knew who I was. I loved it. I loved it. I just loved it. I just loved it! I would walk around, go into skanky places in Berlin all night. I'd talk to whoever would talk to me, occasionally go home with people, as often as I could. I went to places where people were doing things, smoking things. I just loved it.

  One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag … is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous. I have to get over this.

  • A. Karp, in "Agent of Intelligence" (archived), Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac, Forbes magazine (2013-09-02)

Yoneda lemma

• An analogy from particle physics proposed by Theo Johnson-Freyd might help give insight into the Yoneda Lemma: "You work at a particle accelerator. You want to understand some particle. All you can do is throw other particles at it and see what happens. If you understand how your mystery particle responds to all possible test particles at all possible test energies, then you know everything there is to know about your mystery particle".
  • Sridhar Mahadevan: "On The Universality of Diagrams for Causal Inference and The Causal Reproducing Property"

• Or, in more evocative terms, a mathematical object X is best thought of in the context of a category surrounding it, and is determined by the network of relations it enjoys with all the objects of that category. … This is reminiscent of Wittgenstein's 'language game'; i.e., that the meaning of a word is—in essence—determined by, in fact is nothing more than, its relations to all the utterances in a language.
  • Barry Mazur: "Thinking about Grothendieck" (archived)

Awareness

• Awareness of all this, which is real meditation, has revealed that there is a central image put together by all the other images, and this central image, the observer, is the censor, the experiencer, the evaluator, the judge who wants to conquer or subjugate the other images or destroy them altogether. The other images are the result of judgements, opinions and conclusions by the observer, and the observer is the result of all the other images—therefore the observer is the observed.
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti: Freedom from the Known

Memory

• What you are looking at are memories. In this case, pertaining to one individual.
  • Albus Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

• "No dates. Placed on the shelves in no discernable order. Just his mind poured out on paper."

  "Looks like a life's work."

  • William Somerset and David Mills, in Seven (1995)

• "The Khert ain't a thing easily lets go of what it's got, whether it's the really-real world skinside, or this ever-after hoard tucked underneath."

  "Hoard? Like gold?"

  "Like memories. All these walls are made of 'em. The Khert strips memories off'a every soul that dies afore sending it out t'get reborn. Turns out nawt's ever forgotten—not really. Mama Khert hoards it all; a mad, fishy twat with too much shit in her purse."

  • Murkoph and Sette, in Unsounded, ch. 7, p. 42

• Everything that happens is recorded and stored and recalled in the Book of Life.
  • Mr. World, in American Gods [1.05]

• "My Lord, what was it the barbarian said, as the riders vanished?"

  "Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. Fare you well, Master Li."

  • Master Li and Dream, in Sandman #74

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