While reading a recent post on AI that gained sudden white-hot virality, one line from Wendell Berry kept coming to mind. In his poem titled Anger Against Beasts, Berry reflects on man's will being schooled in having its way to "transcend the impossible in simple fury." This is the image underlying our technological discourse, and captures the pathos of the recent post––the furious acceleration of AI advancements is now on the cusp of transcending the impossible. In other words, something big is happening.
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