In contrast, instrumental goals, or instrumental values, are only valuable to an agent as a means toward accomplishing its final goals. See also: Instrumental and intrinsic valueįinal goals-also known as terminal goals, final values, ends, or telē-are intrinsically valuable to an intelligent agent, whether an artificial intelligence or a human being, as ends-in-themselves. Proposed basic AI drives include utility function or goal-content integrity, self-protection, freedom from interference, self-improvement, and non-satiable acquisition of additional resources. For example, a computer with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a difficult mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the entire Earth into one giant computer in an effort to increase its computational power so that it can succeed in its calculations. Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with unbounded but apparently harmless goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. More precisely, agents (beings with agency) may pursue instrumental goals-goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end, but are not the end goals themselves-without ceasing, provided that their ultimate (intrinsic) goals may never be fully satisfied. Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent beings (human and non-human) to pursue similar sub-goals, even if their ultimate goals are quite different.
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The rest, along with around 150 A5 notebooks, have been sent to the Huntington Library in California, where her archive is kept. Mantel had written 20,000 words of Provocation, but the two brief paragraphs published here, read at her memorial in Southwark Cathedral this week, are the only ones Gerald McEwen, Mantel’s husband, felt were finished enough to share with the world. “She felt that it was time to get away from the really serious research and the big historical novels, to do something lighter.” “I think she thought, ‘I can just have a whole load of fun,’” says her long-term agent, Bill Hamilton. From 2,000 pages of bloody Tudor pageantry to Austen’s two-inches of ivory, it is a dizzying shift in scale. Even more intriguingly, it was planned as a mischievous Austen mashup, with characters from all her novels making an appearance in unfamiliar guises. We now know the answer to Atwood’s question: Mantel was working on a rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the overlooked middle sister Mary Bennet, to be titled Provocation. Aside from her Cromwell novels, Mantel had a habit of confounding expectations, with each new work so different from its predecessor. “I don’t know, but I will miss it.” In this, she spoke for readers around the world, eagerly awaiting a new book from the author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. “W hat might she have written next?” asked Margaret Atwood in her tribute to Hilary Mantel, after the Booker prize-winning novelist’s sudden death in September last year. After a lengthy and traumatic quarantine in an asylum, the group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the good fortune that the doctor's wife has escaped the blindness. The ophthalmologist's spouse, "the doctor's wife," is inexplicably immune to the blindness. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008.īlindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. Ī sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda. Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. 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I wish to begin by thanking him with all my heart for his encouragement through the years, and for patiently, generously and Prodding for me to come round to the idea, but he was – of course – right, that I would hugely enjoy this project. Had been suggesting to me for a couple of years that I should write a book about Viking women. When I started working on this book in the autumn of 2017, my husband, Anders Winroth, I’m only human, and Latin’s dead for a number of reasons, some of which are actually decent. I’ll give my own takes, notes, and translations on the texts here, though you should probably check out other translations, too, where available. Some of the rituals have already been translated in the Kieckhefer’s book itself, and others might be found across the Internet. In addition to translating the text, I’ll redraw and relabel any illustrations as necessary. I base my translations off of Richard Kieckhefer’s Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the 15th Century which is itself full of annotations, a discussion of grimoiric magic, and the kinds of rituals the text contains. It’s a fascinating example of the medieval and Renaissance magical tradition, and is one of the few whole collections of spells that a magician might have used back in the day.Īs a Latinist, and since the book is composed pretty much all in Latin, I’ve tried my hand at translating a few of the selections that might be useful or interesting to a person in my line of Work. The text focuses largely on demonic and necromantic magic, but contains sections on conjuration, astrological magic, and divination as well. The “Munich Manual of Demonic Magic” (CLM 849 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich) is a fifteenth century grimoire primarily composed in Latin. Her continued personal and professional ambivalence is forgotten as she deals with personal tragedy then exacerbated by a chafing desire for some individual freedom and finally overshadowed by a continued threat that hovers over Ana and Christian from an old, malevolent enemy with connections to Grey’s past no one would expect and Christian doesn’t remember. Uncertain about her own ambitions and identity in the face of Grey’s staggering wealth and heady sexual pull, Ana sets out to stake a claim in the publishing world, helped and hindered by the fact that Christian has bought the company. Fifty Shades Freed starts with their wedding and honeymoon, a fairy-tale journey through Europe that leaves Ana amazed and conflicted. Ana and Christian get married, but continued physical and emotional threats, as well as Christian’s need for control, mitigate their bliss.Īt the end of Fifty Shades Darker, Anastasia Steele agrees to marry her beloved magnate-billionaire boyfriend, Christian Grey. 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Abby Wambach is an American soccer player, coach, two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, and the 2012 FIFA World Player of the Year. That is not exactly an order that Roberts takes to heart. A ranger told a friend of the author, “Tell Roberts to shut the up.” He made that mistake in an earlier book, “In Search of the Old Ones,” of describing an intact corrugated pot elsewhere on Cedar Mesa, and left so many clues to its location that hikers beat a path to it. “To take the basket out of its hiding place,” he writes in “The Lost World of the Old Ones,” “would in all likelihood have damaged it.” In 2012, Roberts and his wife and a group of close friends returned to the site and found the basket intact. But Roberts believes in the concept of an “outdoor museum,” leaving artifacts where they lie, so that others, too, can have the joy of discovery. Another visitor or even an anthropologist likely would have removed the basket to take it home or display it in a museum. It was Roberts’ greatest find in 40 years of exploring the Southwest. Some 20 years ago, David Roberts and his wife discovered a stunning prehistoric woven basket hidden between two sandstone slabs on Utah’s Cedar Mesa. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu This sets her and her brothers on their journeys. Shiori has magic in a kingdom where magic is forbidden, she tries to keep it hidden but is one day discovered using it by her stepmother. This is working up so much and there’s so much to build toward. Pacing in this is slower, but it needs to be. Even though each book is distinctive, her writing style is always flawless for me. Lim’s writing style is beautiful and flowing, I think it’s one of the reasons I keep enjoying her books so much. She starts out rather sheltered and so she has a lot of room to grow in this tale. I LOVED the character development of our MC Shiori in this. I love the tale of The Wild Swans and was excited for a retelling, especially one that looked as amazing as this one. The Blood of Stars duology is one of my favorites and so I had high hopes for this one, and I was not disappointed. I’ll have to preface this by saying I am biased. Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Electrico, who reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched him with his energy-charged sword, and commanded, “Live forever!” Bradbury said, “I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. He often told the story of an encounter with a carnival magician, Mr. (The doodles throughout this website are just a mere sampling.) Yet Bradbury always maintained strong ties to his small-town upbringing. His childhood was spent in the Midwestern small town of Waukegan, Illinois, and he mastered his craft in Los Angeles, where he forged a special creative bond with the city and its many cultures, raised his family, and drew as feverishly as he wrote. Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers and viewers to dream, think, and create. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.’ ‘We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. |