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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
Per contatti su Telegram: @antoniodini
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Sul perché viaggiare per ritrovare sé stessi non funziona: viaggiare -come strumento per il miglioramento personale- serve ad altro

Money quote: "The virtue of travel is that it exposes you to other cultures, people and ways of life. It helps develop a global mindset, it puts things into perspective. It’s exciting and fulfilling in its own way. It’s also a status symbol. It sets you apart. It makes you nomadic, and interesting. It can make you think you are beyond the norms your peers have fallen beholden to.
But none of those things help you understand who you are, though they are all enlightening in their own ways."

https://medium.com/@briaeliza/travel-is-not-how-you-find-yourself-its-how-you-escape-yourself-c143e06a7329
Leggendo questo articolo, la cui tesi piuttosto sempliciotta è che forse potremmo trovare creature extraterrestri nella foggia di intelligenze artificiali che vagano replicandosi per l’universo, mi è venuta in mente un’altra cosa. Ragionando a questa maniera, l’essere umano dal punto di vista del credente è una forma di intelligenza artificiale, in quanto creato a immagine e somiglianza dell’essere supremo, unico “naturale” (cioè non creato da altri). No?

(Ovviamente no, il ragionamento è paradossale e non sta in piedi. Ma è stimolante secondo me).

Money quote: “In short, the way for a species to make a better AI is to let that AI and its components explore the messy Universe. As complex and nourishing as a single planet can be, a cosmos filled with worlds offers millions, billions, even trillions of natural test tubes, each with its own tale of natural selection and chance. Spreading savant AI pieces across the stars offers a way to exploit these endless natural experiments and sensory inputs.”

https://aeon.co/essays/first-contact-what-if-we-find-not-organic-life-but-ets-ai
Lettura domenicale. Un racconto fantascientifico ambientato in Cina (la MIT Technology Review pubblicava un bel supplemento annuale di fantascienza che ho sempre comprato con dedizione, a quanto pare non lo fanno più ma almeno pubblicano ancora qualcosa di valido online, di quando in quando).

Money quote: "More than a decade ago, when I was breaking under the stress of my PhD thesis and despondent from estrangement with my family, Professor Lau sent me e-mails daily, quoting lines from his favorite movies in his signature. Although he never said so explicitly, I knew that those lines—warm, encouraging, and uplifting—were meant for me.

I’ve never even seen some of those movies, but I remember every single quote he sent.

“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” —Fight Club (1999)

When I became a different person on that rainy night, he was the one who saved me."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612590/the-reunion-a-new-science-fiction-story-about-surveillance-in-china/
Lo scrittore artificiale esiste! Il rapporto con l’editore è esattamente quello.
Sto finalizzando la newsletter di Mostly, I Write. Se c’è qualche volontario per ricevere il/i numeri zero, potete dm qui su telegram il vostro contatto email all’indirizzo @antoniodini
Pensierino serale. Il problema di una società bulimica, costruita per massimizzare i consumi, è che poi si trasforma in un ricettacolo di paradossi. Ad esempio, l'intersezione del rapporto con le tecnologie e la nostra vita privata

Money quote: "Instead of our devices being a distraction from our relationships, our relationships seem to be a distraction from our devices."

https://medium.com/s/story/have-we-married-technology-and-divorced-ourselves-from-people-21482c68b437
Gli ultimi eroi del volo sono i piloti che fanno trasferimenti da un continente all'altro di piccoli aerei privati per i loro proprietari.

Money quote: "My earliest memories are of lining up my stuffed toys and dolls in the cockpit of a small Cessna aircraft. As my father built up his flying hours, there would be afternoon trips to France - my tiny bicycle stowed away in the back. A cycle ride along the beaches of Le Touquet would be my reward for enduring the occasional bumpy flight without complaint.

Later, as a teenager, I loved listening to stories of his flying adventures. Yet I was aware those gripping tales of flights over war-torn countries or in icy conditions across the Atlantic Ocean were censored to protect me from worrying about his safety.
In 1999 my father was killed when the aircraft he was delivering crashed over the mountains in Canada."

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34484972
Ok, quasi ci siamo. Grazie a una pattuglia di volontari, il primo numero zero della newsletter di Mostly, I Write è andato. Ne faccio un altro prima di cominciare seriamente. Però, se intanto volete iscrivervi, si parte da qui:

https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite
Per comprendere meglio l'attuale ossessione per gli assistenti intelligenti con i quali parlare. L'idea è antica e potente, a me pare odiosa e inutile.

Money quote: "Two decades later, with the rise of voice computing platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, the world’s biggest tech companies are suddenly, precipitously moving in Tunstall-­Pedoe’s direction. Voice-­enabled smart speakers have become some of the industry’s best-selling products; in 2018 alone, according to a report by NPR and Edison Research, their prevalence in American households grew by 78 percent. According to one market survey, people ask their smart speakers to answer questions more often than they do anything else with them. Tunstall-­Pedoe’s vision of computers responding to our queries in a single pass—providing one-shot answers, as they are known in the search community—has gone mainstream. The internet and the multibillion-­dollar business ecosystems it supports are changing irrevocably. So, too, is the creation, distribution, and control of information—the very nature of how we know what we know."

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-alexa-search-for-the-one-perfect-answer/
Giocavate a D e D? Tempo di guardare le mappe

Money quote: "Whether you’ve diagrammed it out on graph paper, or jotted it down freehand; whether it’s a network of underground stone passages or a guide to the only path through a haunted swampland; whether it has a detailed key and spot illustrations or it’s just a bunch of lines, we want to see your original D&D adventure maps. If you’ve ever drawn a dungeon map in the past, send us a picture, and if you haven’t, now’s the time to dream one up. Use your imagination, be detailed, and have fun!"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/send-us-your-dungeons-and-dragons-map
Tra poco mando il secondo (e ultimo) numero zero della newsletter di Mostly, I Write. Se avete voglia di iscrivervi, questo è il momento. Per chi ha già ricevuto il primo (e voi sapete chi siete), non c'è bisogno di fare altro.

Per iscriversi: https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite

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