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"Slop" is a bit snappier than "artificial cultural homogenization." Now that'd get some eye rolls.

I think this is good advice for bloggers and journalists, but not for novelists or poets.

Oof, that's not what the WhatsApp ads on the train station platform say.

It seems to me that the Large Language Models are always trending towards good ethical considerations. It's when these companies get contracts with Anduril and the DoD that they ha…

"The issue is, if we push moral considerations for algorithms, we will not end up with a higher regard to human welfare. We will lower our regard for other humans. When we see othe…

I took computer science for a year before flunking out. My parents pushed me into college. My father didn't want me to join the Navy like he had done, when he was a young man. A lo…

All part of the great warp and weft. It's a fascinating thing to learn about, how all these traditions intersect. Seattle, the city I live in, recently became the first to ban cast…

Dr. Ambedkar is somebody more people in the United States should know about. I was a briefly involved with the Triratna Buddhist Community and read some of Sangharakshita's writing…

Well, maybe there's something to it. I think it's great when East meets West. East should keep meeting West over and over and over. Maybe one day East will know West and vice versa…