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nextwave
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Just making sure everyone is having a good time on the Merry-go-round.
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nextwave 1 year ago
image MGMT - Congratulations Congratulations (2010) #tunestr
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nextwave 1 year ago
"We must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception." -- Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (1951)
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nextwave 1 year ago
"There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from increasing anaemia, because the helpful numina have fled from the woods, rivers, and mountains, and from animals, and the god-men have disappeared underground into the unconscious. There we fool ourselves that they lead an ignominious existence among the relics of our past. Our present lives are dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our greatest and most tragic illusion. By the aid of reason, we assure ourselves, we have 'conquered nature'."" -- Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols (1964)
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nextwave 1 year ago
LLMs are a rehypothication of human imagination.
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nextwave 1 year ago
"Most people are afraid of their own shadows." -- Carl Jung, probably
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nextwave 1 year ago
image Rory Gallagher - Bad Penny Live at the Montreux (1985) #tunestr
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nextwave 1 year ago
image Cream - Crossroads (1968) #tunestr