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The Pool of Narcissus

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The Pool of Narcissus

A Few Reflections on Artificial Intelligence

David Bentley Hart
Mar 22, 2023
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dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit,  
dumque bibit, visae correptus imagine formae
spem sine corpore amat, corpus putat esse, quod umbra est...

[...and when he sought to quench his thirst, another thirst arose; and when he drank, he was captivated by the image of the form he saw—he loves a bodiless hope, he mistakes for a body what is only a shadow...]

Ovid, Metamorphoses, book III

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