The song “Sports car” by Tate McRae drew me in when I first heard it. The catchy beat and rhythm, the sexual lyrics, and the seductive tone all formed a perfect storm of “stuck in your head”-ness for me, for lack of a better term.
I noticed a lot of people are reflecting at the end of the year on life and living, and how to move forward. It reminds me of a quote from the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This comes at the end of the book, after a riot in Harlem, where
“What is philosophy, or the love of wisdom?” I would ask you: What is questioning? And more importantly, why should we even care?
When AI first started to get advanced to the point where people started to form relationships with chatbots, the immediate reaction by many people was evoking Skynet: an advanced AI from the Terminator series that becomes self aware, self-replicating and takes over the world. The reason why AI will not
The Old English word “wyrd” is often celebrated by English Literature nerds and is a very specific word with a very specific meaning roughly translated to “fate”. It is more useful to understand it in terms of stories: It is used for example in the Old English Elegy The Wanderer,