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Deleuze, Bourdieu, Malebranche, ...

I find it incredibly satisfying to stretch my brain with books that are inaccessible on the first read.


Deleuze is so overrated(although I am personally biased against everything that came out and was concurrent with Mai 68 in general). I don't know if you read it in French, but in French the only "French Theorist" worse than Deleuze/Guattari is Baudrillar(for how bad the concepts are).

IMO the most interesting one from that era is Clouscard.


Did you read Deleuze's Logique de la sensation?

Yes I read him in french. Unfamiliar with Clouscard. Not a fan of Baudrillar either.


From Deleuze, I read: - L'Anti-Oedipe + Mille Plateaux - Logique du sens - Le Bergsonisme - The 2 books on Nietzsche(these IMO are his best work)

Didn't get around to Logique de la Sensation, couldn't stomach him after the "Capitalisme/schizophrénie" duo.


Brussels/Belgium is full of them.

My favorites are the Clockarium, Museum of the Art Deco Ceramic Clock. (https://www.clockarium.org/ Check out the video, its is magnificent.)

And The Sewer Museum: Experience an authentic sewer, stroll along the Senne and discover the little-known but ever so important profession of a sewage worker. Descend deep into the bowels of the city for this unique experience! https://sewermuseum.brussels/


>One thing that I wonder though is how we will draw the line. If I'm writing a piece and do a Google search, and in that way invoke BERT under the hood, is anything that I write afterwards "AI-tainted"? What about the grammar checker? Or the spot removal tool in photoshop or gimp? Or the AI voice that reads back to me my own article so that I can find prose issues?

>And that brings the other problem: do the general public really know the extent of AI use today, never mind in the future?

The line is drawn at human ownership/responsibility. A piece of content can be 'AI tainted' or '100% produced by AI', what makes the difference is if a human takes the responsibility of the end product or not.


Responsibility and ownership always lies with the humans. Even supposedly 100% AI generated content is still coming from a process started and maintained by humans. Currently also prompted by a human.

The humans running those processes can attempt to deny ownership or responsibility if they so choose but whenever it matters such as in law or any other arena dealing with liability or ownership rights, the humans will be made to own the responsibility.

Same as for self-driving cars. We can debate about who the operator is and to what extent the manufacturers, the occupants, or the owners are responsible for whether the car causes harm but we'll never try to punish the car while calling all humans involved blameless. The point of holding people responsible for outcomes and actions is to drive meaningful change in human behaviors in order to reduce harms and encourage human flourishing.

In terms of ownership and intellectual property, again the point of even having rules is to manage interactions between humans so we can behave civilly towards each other. There can be no meaningful category of content produced "100%" by AI unless AI become persons under the law or as considered by most humans.

If an AI system can ever truly produce content on its own volition, without any human action taken to make that specific thing happen, then that system would be a rational actor on par with other persons and we'll probably begin the debate over whether AI systems should be treated as people in society and under the law. That may even be a new category distinct from human persons such as it is with the concept of corporate persons.


1 earn an income with my passion project https://QuietNearMe.com

2 play more, more humor, more laughs

3 expand social circle, make new friends


Neat project. For what it's worth I want to poke around at it to discover "what kind of places might you recommend near me" to find out if I'm interested but I don't want to sign up without any sense of its value so I just closed the page.


Thanks! And I completely agree, I generally do the same. I don't sign up without a sense of the value.

I put the sign up wall - reluctantly - recently because people are not inclined to suggest their favorite quiet spots. And I need to grow the quiet map to make it liveable for me. Currently its all on my dime & time.

It needs to stay a free platform for users. It's not the affluent that live next to railways, share rooms, can escape to the countryside.

So I put the sign up wall so I at least have the possibility to send an email every once in awhile, to reach out to the interested users. To encourage them to add a quiet spot. I have not send such email since I created it 7 months ago.

I'm not happy with this "solution" but have not found a better way. Would welcome any advice or input.

ps: If you like, I'll send you an entry code.


My daughter has hyperacusis so I love the idea of this project.


Thanks. My dad has it too.


I did not read the whole wikipedia page and my eye caught these subtitles:

- Nazi collaboration - Role in emission cheating software - Role in Astongate greenwashing campaign


Trees are a good sound absorber. Which creates a healthier soundscape : less noise, reduced stress, lower rates of heart disease.

cf https://www.treehugger.com/how-do-trees-reduce-noise-polluti...


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