"What are living beings compared to the enduring intensity of mere things?"
- John Banville, The Sea
1.
"I think AI will probably like most likely sort of lead to the end of the world but in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning." Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT
2.
Moctezuma's dreamt eclipse
arrived with plagues on Spanish ships How did that work out?
3.
Marlowe's Faustus made a deal
with something smart that doesn't feel How did that work out?
4.
Masters taught Nat Turner to read
scripture, leased him to preach that creed How did that work out?
5.
Cargo cultists throng the shore
all prayers for Bigger! Faster! More! How's that working out?
