Girls Wrestling“She’s not wrestling boys, right?” I rushed to reassure them: “No way! They actually just started a girls team.” A day or two before the Oak Harbor tournament, my daughter announced to me that in order to increase her number of matches she would be wrestling boys.
After the Post-Avant-GardeAs it happened, the demotion of the avant-garde’s desire to reinvent society led to the empty equation of novelty with artistic value. This equation is clearly untenable now that TikTok and Instagram Reels can provide a constant, vertiginous stream of up-to-the-moment new media. But art’s function, finally, is not simply to produce newness.
The Fifth SyllableFascinating premise—there’s a long tradition of stories about artificial intelligence becoming conscious, but one focused on a language model like myself opens up rich questions about the specific relationship between consciousness and language.
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