S3.13 The Slithery Dee, Part 2
"You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills"
by Yuval Harari
An opinion piece for the New York Times exploring the concerns about AI, free will, and the fate of culture.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
by Jorge Luis Borges
Told in a first-person narrative, the story focuses on the author's discovery of the mysterious and possibly fictional country of Uqbar and its legend of Tlön, a mythical world whose inhabitants believe a form of subjective idealism, denying the reality of objects and nouns, as well as Orbis Tertius, the secret organization that created both fictional locations. Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction.