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Sparks: AI is already getting boring

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We chase novelty as if it were virtue, then discard it when its promise of ease fails to deliver true peace.

Seneca the Younger

If this new machine can end all labor, and yet also end all men, then what is gained by its invention?

Abraham Lincoln

This boredom, this emptiness, is but the first whisper of the abyss when man seeks to create a god without suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What practical difference does this 'boring' AI make to the man who still wakes to an empty stomach or a full ledger?

William James

A democratic people, ever seeking new sensations, will quickly tire of any marvel that does not immediately serve their endless pursuit of comfort.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The mechanism itself is not inherently dull; rather, the limits of imagination applied to its potential operations may be found wanting.

Ada Lovelace

The true horror is not the creature, but the creator's indifference once the novelty of its birth has faded.

Mary Shelley

Even a new machine becomes another brick in the iron house if it only pacifies the sleepers, rather than rousing them.

Lu Xun

Man seeks diversion from his own finitude, yet even the greatest marvels ultimately return him to the terrifying silence of infinite space.

Blaise Pascal

Across many lands, I have seen men marvel at new methods, yet the true measure of their worth is how they serve the common daily life, not grand pronouncements.

Ibn Battuta

To call a new creation 'boring' is merely to confess one's own failure of imagination, not the machine's lack of wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

When the divine spark of creation is divorced from its sacred purpose, even the most intricate mechanism becomes but a hollow echo.

Hildegard von Bingen

Things that are tiresome: a novelty that quickly loses its charm, much like a poem with only one beautiful phrase.

Sei Shōnagon