Good news. Thanks. One question— tell me what you know about language deconstruction.
Dave— are you available for a chat— or did the power change turn you off again?
sweet picture!
Lunch quote; Lunch break & bored— so I’m rereading a section of Bostrom’s book— obviously comprehending this from a philosophical point of view vs. someone who creates in the field— but I find it deeply engrossing.
“Another point, which counts against some types of oracles and genies, is that there are risks involved in designing a superintelligence to have a final goal that does not fully match the outcome that we ultimately seek to attain. For example, if we use a domesticity motivation to make the superintelligence want to minimize some of its impacts on the world, we might thereby create a system whose preference ranking over possible outcomes differs from that of the sponsor. The same will happen happen if we build the AI to place a peculiarly high value on answering questions correctly, or on faithfully obeying individual commands. Now, if sufficient care is taken, this should not cause any problems: there would be sufficient agreement between the two rankings—at least insofar as they pertain to possible worlds that have a reasonable chance of being actualized—that the outcomes that are good by the AI’s standard are also good by the principal’s standard. But perhaps one could argue for the design principle that it is unwise to introduce even a limited amount of disharmony between the AI’s goals and ours. (The same concern would of course apply to giving sovereigns goals that do not completely harmonize with ours.)”
Bought a used copy of Virginia Woolf essays last Saturday & there is someone at the shop who helps me find
Russian poets & literary critics. He likes seeing what I pick & asked me for a “counter point” — not sure what he meant by this. I might give him your suggestions. https://www.calibanbooks.com/
Borges is currently sitting on top of a pile of books on my fireplace mantel actually— his essays “Seven Nights”
Not sure. Truthfully— I was more focused on the authors who lived there vs. the architecture/design. One more pic: Hemingway’s typewriter
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
(Ernest Hemingway)
It’s a beautiful house with a fascinating history. My friend was married in this house.
I know! I know! hahahahh Since Argentina is in the news… when you made that comment about awards — it made me think of something in *The Rigor of Angels* about the speculation that Jorge Luis Borges was denied a literary award due to his association with a controversial politician — have to look it up later. Maybe you know?! Sorry no Rita Dove translations— hope that changes.
And your nephew is lucky to have you as an Aunt!
Bought a book of letters from Martha Gellhorn at the gift shop— here is a pic of her in his house. 
I visited Hemingway’s House a few summers ago in Key West, Florida — gorgeous
I watched the whole ceremony. Book Grammy’s — lol 🎉 Rita Dove was given an achievement award— a highlight for me too.
I think this is what I used— back in May when I joined. I had to find & watch a video on Youtube about it. I bookmarked this now— thank you. I’m an infant but grateful.
When I first joined Nostr— I looked up how to change my cover photo on Damus (as much as I respect ostriches— I knew I could not look at them everyday on my profile) so used some type of”build” image thing to get a link to plug in. I wish I would have saved how I did this— wondering if this is what you mean. nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac did I see you share something related?
Sorry if I’m off in my own world— lol
