“Why Japan Is Building Its Own Version of ChatGPT /Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture”
Headline and deck on article in Scientific American September 15, 2023
“some [Austro-Hungarian policy-makers] added that Russia would not intervene [in their attack on Serbia in 1914] because war would once more pose the threat of revolution.”
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., in Holger H. Herwig, The Outbreak of World War I, 5th edition
“In the synod, there is no place for ideology.”
Pope Francis, quoted in National Post September 5, 2023 [which I quote not because I approve but because it’s a common and important error: he’s against “ideology”, but how would he define it as opposed to actual thought except perhaps as the kind of thought he disagrees with?]
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
“Epicurus Greek philosopher (341-270 B.C.)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 6, 2012.
“Man is governed not only by what he thinks but by what he chooses to think about.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 11, 1912, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008).
“How odd it is that the things we do spontaneously are usually bad for us. Doesn’t that suggest that something has gone wrong with our nature? I think so. Please notice that I am asking whether the condition of man’s nature has changed. I am not asking whether our nature itself has changed, for if that had happened, then either the being before the change wasn’t man – or it was, but we aren’t.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
“H.G. Wells’ description of the town of Bromstead – ‘a dull, useless boiling up of human activities, an immense clustering of futilities.’”
William H. Whyte The Organization Man
“No one can invent new values or a new morality. What appear to be new ones are merely the results of cherry-picking elements of the ‘old’ morality, exaggerating them, and ignoring all of its other elements. This was [C.S.] Lewis’s great insight.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]