07-19-2026, 11:37 AM
"Only connect" is, I think, the key. Claude's relationship to the rest of the world is integral or autistic (or maybe sociopathic) but in any case unconnected. We can connect with *it* because we posit a heart, but it can't reciprocate because it's never had the experience of possessing a heart.
Like Churchill's houses, we build the characters we attribute to other participants, and they subsequently build us. That's critique in this forum, and the game's worth the candle.
Like Churchill's houses, we build the characters we attribute to other participants, and they subsequently build us. That's critique in this forum, and the game's worth the candle.
Non-practicing atheist