Orts #831

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
     — Virginia Woolf, Diary, March 1919


There are apparently hundreds of billions of neutrinos passing through my brain every second, but none of them collide with anything significant. But the messages our culture relentlessly delivers are not so benign.
     -- PDT


Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures….
     — Sigmund Freud


The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
     — G. K. Chesterton

 

The A.I. Revolution:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality.html?ref=opinion