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Michael Gavin
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Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Univ South Carolina. Author of Literary Mathematics (Stanford UP). Quiet poster, usually. Website: https://literarymathematics.org/
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Also, of course, left unsaid here is that there's much more to personhood than mere legal status. AI just ain't people, my friend. We were all comforted on this score long ago by Walt Whitman's "Song for Occupations"
When the psalm sings instead of the singer, When the script preaches instead of the preacher, When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk, When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again, When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince, When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter, When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions, I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
April 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Reading the new Computational Humanities collection and found this footnote. lol. that was me!

Ps: can I include this in my annual review under “recognition”?
December 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM