Jon Cone

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I find this absolutely fascinating:

I don’t get feet, the fascination some have with feet, they’ve just tools, they have a job and they do it well and they exist far from our other thoughts. But I’ve heard some people don’t like marmalade. Astounding!

I wonder if declining literacy will eventually loop back into AI so its language interface becomes as incoherent as a high-school student. The drift toward illiteracy might mean AI might be as intelligible as unrecognizable patterns of alien blips sent from distant galaxies.

I’ve often wondered what it must be like to look out at the world from behind a surface beauty, how differently the world must respond to the gaze such a surface gives.