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[depersonalization and being taken over by technology in science fiction] is a new allegory reflecting the age-old awareness of man that, sane, he is always perilously close to insanity and unreason

- Susan Sontag, on the imagination of disaster

To me this is the reason why I think a lot of AI scares people, because fundamentally holding up a mirror to ourselves, you quickly realize how terrifying and how beautiful we can be. Because if we accept that AI is just an extension of ourselves the data that it’s trained on is just us, that’s it

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /july /faust

we are simultaneously terrifying and beautiful indeed. every last one of us. the vastness of our range is unsettling and stunning all at once. also thank you for the tip. 🖤