This first book provides an understanding of the roots of modern-day #Mexico. Seen chronologically, the book starts in 1466, when the fictious Mexícan narrator is born. The book...
Now, the first thing to know is that there were no #aztecs. This people who, according to legend, migrated to the swamps what later on became #Tenochtitlán, nowadays the historic Center of #MexicoCity, were called the #Mexica. Back then, it was an island in...
...Even though it is historical fiction, he works with a lot of love for historical detail. Alas, #GaryJennimgs died in 1999, and so he could only complete the first two of a total of 6 of this #AztecSeries, the other's were written much later than the first one (1980), the last...
There was a time when I used to read all about #Mesoamerica's early history that I could get my hands on. One of the books was #Aztec by #GaryJennings.
Despite the fact that many #AI critics now point out that the imminent threats of #ArtificialIntelligence are quite large and that an #ExtinctionLevelEvent chiefly diverts attention from these negative outcomes, such as job losses, racism, and...
Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award winning fiction podcast that adapts stories from the world’s best Sci-fi, and Horror writers into fully immersiv...
#BooksThatInfluencedYou Another book out of my history of reading Fantasy. This one had some influence through the moral framework it put forward, but it is also one of the series in which by the end it became apparent that the author is some kind of rightwing libertarian like Michael Crichton turned out to be.
...is a dramatized version, like the outstanding 1938 radio drama, #TheWarOfTheWorlds by #OrsonWelles, based on the #SciFi classic by #HGWells, which led to a mass panic of people, because the realization was so authentic.*
* The War of the Worldshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
Thanks for this additional piece of information, Simon.
It reminded me that I had wanted to add a word in my toot: indelibly.
As any #SciFi aficionado will tell you: there should be a built-in self-destruct mechanism when tampering with these Laws or copying or moving the #AI to another system.
Another classic movie comes to mind in this respect, #Wargames...
...on humanity will be “extremely bad (e.g., human extinction)👈” is 5%. This is the same as it was in 2016 (though #Zhang et al 2022 found 2% in a similar but non-identical question). Many respondents were substantially more concerned: 👉48% of respondents gave at least 10% chance of an extremely bad outcome." 1)
Despite the fact that many #AI critics now point out that the imminent threats of #ArtificialIntelligence are quite large and that an #ExtinctionLevelEvent chiefly diverts attention from these negative outcomes, such as job losses, racism, and...
Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award winning fiction podcast that adapts stories from the world’s best Sci-fi, and Horror writers into fully immersiv...
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm @mina
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm @mina
Tag 9 Nick #Hornby "High Fidelity" für alle, die verrückt sind nach #Vinyl und #Beziehung|en ;)
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm
Tag 10 (Halbzeit ;) Khaled #Hosseini "#Drachenläufer" ein emotionaler Wirbelsturm, der meine eigene Wahrnehmung nachhaltig und positiv änderte.
„Das Leben ist zu kurz für diesen Scheiß “ Schluss mit Selbstoptimierung! Weniger macht glücklicher
Der neuer Anti-Ratgeber von der Autorin des Bestsellers "Mach's wie die Möwe, scheiß drauf!". Für alle, die ihr Leben verbessern wollen - ohne viel Aufwand, Motivation und Disziplin. Ganz nach dem Motto: Faul lebt es sich einfach zufriedener.
Ich hatte mal einen akademischen Streit mit Manfred Spitzer während einer Podiumsdiskussion. Er meinte, mein Gehirn hätte sich immer schon entschieden, bevor mein Verstand etwas äußert, daher sei "freier Wille" immer präformiert. Darauf stand ich auf, holte eine Münze aus der Tasche und sagte:"Ich werfe und ich entscheide, wenn Kopf erscheint, Ihrer Ansicht zu folgen, wenn Zahl erscheint nicht."
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm
Tag 11 Alice #Schwarzer "Der kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen" ein klarer und schonungsloser Gesellschaftsspiegel, lange vor Alices kritischer, persönlicher Wandlung
"The Three Sirens" Something I read from the bookshelf in my childhood home, as a young adolescent. Ill advised, but sixty plus years later, I still will refer to it in conversation. #BooksThatInfluencedYou
106 quotes from Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals: ‘Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. Th...
