I don’t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I’d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I’d want to be the best at whatever I do.
—Branch Rickey
Above: Dignity can be found even in drudgery.
There’s no defense for
the unremarkable life.
It is the whole point.
Per my about page, White Noise is a work of experimentation. I view it as a sort of thinking aloud, a stress testing of my nascent ideas. Through it, I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.
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With sincere gratitude,
Tom
Tom, you have written quite a lot about artificial intelligence, and its incursion into the humanosphere. Truly, AI‘s progress has been remarkable. As it marches apace to those renowned broad sunlit uplands, we mere mortals may appear to shrink back into unremarkability. OK. Yet I have also seen many of your posts defend the very humanness of the Writer and his place in the grand scheme. There remains much to be admired in the normalcy of our species!