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loving someone means making sacrifices for them topic/heartbreak

Her objection is to Polytope's strategy for getting people to spend that time. Blue Gamma's strategy had been to make the digients lovable, while Polytope was starting with unlovable digients and using pharmaceuticals to make people love them. It seems clear to her that Blue Gamma's approach was th…

—p.165 Exhalation The Lifecycle of Software Objects (62) by Ted Chiang
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but isn't owed the same obligations as a person

"We aren't looking for superintelligent employees, we're looking for superintelligent products. You're offering us the former, and I can't blame you; no one can spend as many years as you have teaching a digient and still think of it as a product. But our business isn't based on that kind of sentim…

—p.162 The Lifecycle of Software Objects (62) by Ted Chiang
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the diminution of the natural world, writ small

Ana hesitates; this is not what she envisioned for herself when she went to college, and for a moment she wonders how it has come to this. As a girl she dreamed of following Fossey and Goodall to Africa; by the time she got out of grad school, there were so few apes left that her best option was to…

—p.66 The Lifecycle of Software Objects (62) by Ted Chiang
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the air that once powered me

It cheered me to imagine that the air that once powered me could power others, to believe that the breath that enables me to engrave these words could one day flow through someone else's body. I do not delude myself into thinking that this would be a way for me to live again, because I am not that …

—p.55 Exhalation (37) by Ted Chiang
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take the light inside you like a blessing

After work you go to the grocery store to get some milk and a carton of cigarettes [...] you can't decide between the Extra Large of Jumbo black olives [...] While you're deciding, the afternoon light is streaming through the windows behind the bank of checkout counters. Take the light inside you l…

—p.54 Crush I (1) by Richard Siken