“When AI shows you something uncanny about yourself—a perfect completion, an unexpected insight, a pattern you didn't know you had—resist the immediate urge to either flee or lean in.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The Mirror Test isn't about finding some essential human quality that AI can never touch (that's a losing game—every year, the machines mirror more). It's about developing what we might call reflexive muscle—the practiced ability to see both the mirror, and yourself seeing the mirror.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“What makes me me when technology can finish my next thought?”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“What makes me me when technology can complete my next sentence, choice, feeling, or action?”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The future needs humans who’ve stopped trying to be machines.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“How Shesheshen wanted one of the hunters to stop this. For one of them to stand up for common sense, if not for the rights of a young damsel. A damsel who had offered them a perfectly good reason to get lost for a few weeks.
But humans never stood up for the right thing. They stood around feeling uncomfortable, and later pretended that feeling uncomfortable meant they were virtuous. Now Malik stood to one side, only slightly obstructing Wulfyre's path. Surely he'd feel awful about this tomorrow when he was spending his blood money, before running of with his partner to the next kill.
And they called her monstrous.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“There were no gods in the shrine she passed, at least not visible ones. Gods never showed themselves to humans even when they dumped miracles on them, which Shesheshen thought was wise. If humans got used to the presence of gods, they'd probably hunt them for profit and glory and other nonsense, just as they did to monsters. Gods were smart to keep a light touch.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Understanding the Holocaust is our chance, perhaps our last one, to preserve humanity.”
Source: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Each of us is the main character of our story, but we are also minor characters in countless other narratives. ... Right now, as you read this sentence, someone is watching a sunset on the other side of the world, someone is grieving their first heartbreak... Our joys and sorrows are part of a collective thread of life. Recognising the life beyond ours can bring humility”
“△ Remembrance as the Origin of Humanity
A Poem by Alexander Martini
Human beings are not finished entities.
They are becoming.
They are remembering.
Not facts, but depth.
Not history, but meaning.
Forgetting is easy.
Remembering is uncomfortable —
because it demands that we face ourselves,
not as we appear,
but as we truly are.
The world has lost its way,
not because it is blind,
but because it no longer recognizes itself.
It has forgotten that compassion
is not a luxury, but a source.
Remembrance is not a looking back.
It is a return.
To origin.
To responsibility.
To the possibility of choosing again.
Because those who remember begin to transform.
Not out of guilt, but out of clarity.”