![]() ![]() ![]() Healey will be present for the discussion of her latest novel, Goodnight from Paris. Thursday, April 27 at 8 p.m.Įvening Book Group Featuring Author Jane Healey ![]() In Fox Creek, Krueger’s latest installment in his Cork O’Connor series, the former sheriff of Tamarack County in northern Minnesota finds himself in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. Virtual Author Talk: William Kent Krueger Gay takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated-from the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, and play to all other aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living. New York Times best-selling author Jason Gay will discuss his newest book, I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders). ![]()
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![]() Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. ![]() But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. ![]() It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. ![]() The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read more: Exploring the Terror of Motherhood with Latin America's Most Promising Novelistįor two decades, Levy's work has probed the female experience: "What does it mean to be a woman? What are the rules?" she writes in her memoir. "But I think every woman at some point in her life will have some kind of epic experience around menstruation, fertility, paternity, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, all these very animal aspects of being female." ![]() "Not every woman will have a child, not every woman-God knows-will lose a child," she said. "My dad said another title for this book could've been Tough Shit," Levy gamely mused, and while the shit she's been served is undeniably tough, it also speaks, on a native level, to the often bloody enterprise of womanhood. It is remarkable in its eloquent, unvarnished presentation of nightmarish loss and its utter lack of self-pity. The Rules Do Not Apply addresses each added blow in the clear-eyed manner of a journalist used to making sense of other people's lives. ![]() First came the miscarriage-a word that feels clumsy in Levy's context-then came the dissolution of her marriage and the loss of a home a few weeks later. "It's hard to comprehend, if you haven't experienced it, how real of a loss is when you're the one losing," Levy told Broadly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her upcoming release is For Lucy, a contemporary romance/women's fiction. When she's not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance. Get a free book by subscribing to her newsletter!-> Sign up here! Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author with a quirky sense of humor. Upcoming Projects: New duet in The Life Series fall/winter 2021. Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author with a quirky sense of humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the concept of the grey leaf tree, whose leaves had amazing healing properties and wood far superior to other timber. Though Levi and Mandy both care for each other, fear of rejection keep them both from telling the other how they feel. ![]() When Mandy is abducted by the same rebel family who killed Levi's mother, Levi comes to her rescue. Levi has cared for Mandy for years, but she rejected him and now sees herself as unworthy. Mandy spend her time handcrafting violins. Levi is busy building himself a house on the hill across from Mandy's family home. This book focuses on Levi and Mandy's story. The people have the technology of the late 1700's. It is set on an inhabited island that is unknown to the modern world, hidden in a place like the Bermuda Triangle. The story is set about ten years in the future during what seems like World War 3. ![]() This is the second book in the Uncharted series - an amazing blend of historical romance and science fiction. ![]() |