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“Hatred has to be learned, Golden says: ‘We are all born with the capacity for aggression as well as compassion. Which tendencies we embrace requires mindful choice by individuals, families, communities and our culture in general. The key to overcoming hate is education: at home, in schools, and in the community.’ According to Dutchevici, facing the fear of being vulnerable and utterly human is what allows us to connect, to feel, and ultimately, to love. She suggests creating ‘cracks in the system.’ These cracks can be as simple as connecting to your neighbor, talking with a friend, starting a protest, or even going to therapy and connecting with an ‘Other.’ It is through these acts that one can understand hate and love.”
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AI vs Engineer Code
Strengths of AI-generated code:
- Speed: AI can generate code snippets, templates, or boilerplate extremely quickly.
- Consistency: It can follow patterns and syntax reliably, reducing some human errors.
- Accessibility: Even non-programmers can produce functional code with AI help.
Limitations of AI-generated code:
- Context understanding: AI often misses the bigger picture, like system architecture, security implications, or long-term maintainability.
- Debugging & optimization: Complex bugs or performance tuning often require human intuition and experience.
- Creativity & problem-solving: Engineers can innovate solutions that aren’t just syntactically correct but elegant and scalable.
Strengths of human engineers:
- Problem-solving: Humans can analyze trade-offs, foresee consequences, and adapt to unexpected requirements.
- Collaboration: Engineers communicate requirements, integrate systems, and maintain code collaboratively.
- Learning & adapting: Humans can understand new technologies and abstract concepts quickly.
Bottom line: AI can be faster and convenient for repetitive or straightforward coding tasks, but human engineers excel at complex, high-stakes, or creative software design. The real advantage comes when humans and AI work together—AI handles the heavy lifting, and humans guide, refine, and innovate.
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The Dark Forest theory explained
“As the supposition holds, the reason we can’t see these alien civilizations is because they’re all in hiding. Unlike humanity — whose radio transmissions have long echoed throughout our local galactic neighborhood — these societies have all concluded that it’s simply too dangerous to broadcast their location to potentially hostile neighbors.”
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Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 270.
“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly
than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for
what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent
enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he
acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no
animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the
rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its
transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd
and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for
example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction.
Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the
same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies.
Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the
feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous
folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as
yet, intelligent enough.”—Aldous Huxley
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“Hatred has to be learned, Golden says: ‘We are all born with the capacity for aggression as well as compassion. Which tendencies we embrace requires mindful choice by individuals, families, communities and our culture in general. The key to overcoming hate is education: at home, in schools, and in the community.’ According to Dutchevici, facing the fear of being vulnerable and utterly human is what allows us to connect, to feel, and ultimately, to love. She suggests creating ‘cracks in the system.’ These cracks can be as simple as connecting to your neighbor, talking with a friend, starting a protest, or even going to therapy and connecting with an ‘Other.’ It is through these acts that one can understand hate and love.”
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Tribute to Michaela Quinn
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“Hope is what keeps us moving when the world feels dark and heavy.”
— Dr. Michaela Quinn