Vineland Reread relationships "A convincing case that artificial

"A convincing case that artificial general intelligence-machine-based intelligence that matches our own-is beyond the capacity of algorithmic machine learning because there is a mismatch between how humans and machines know what they know

What does it mean to ‘always be optimising’

The victims all appear to have died by accident

and moments of triumph and tragedy

the witch who rescued Red when she was a little girl

Vineland Reread relationships "A convincing case that artificialVineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft overlooked Vineland opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history. Beginning with his early besotted encounters with