And at the end of all my searching, all my suffering, I came to understand: I loved the algorithm.

The best advice I ever got, although for a time I didn’t take it that way. It wasn’t offered in kindness—just a curt STFU.

He hadn’t done an honest piece of work since his unexpected success in 1968. Ego, more destructive than drugs or booze.

After his death even his journals were found to consist of vague, ambiguous and purposely misleading statements.

The question isn’t whether AI has become sentient, but whether humans have.

Finally, she said, after all these years, I feel truly seen. At this point the problem is, I want to be unseen.

Alprazolam
Clonazepam
Diazepam
Lorazepam

In the morning I hear the long shriek of the hawk, as if to say, I am all that matters. Death from above.

With you, I feel like I do with myself. Like nobody.

Reaching a late August level of nihilism when it’s only the first week in July.

And then, gradually, fear becomes your way of life.