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Since AI entities are capable of hacking software entities, it should be _obvious_ that they are capable of autonomously hacking wetware entities, e.g. humans and human social groups. An incident of the first kind is called a national emergency. An incident of the second kind is called a chatbot subscription.

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Several pages of “The Dog’s Gaze” are devoted to the most memorable little dog in art, the one in Carpaccio’s late-Quattrocento painting of St. Augustine in his beautiful Venetian study. The Maltese—who watches his master as the translucent apparition of St. Jerome appears at his study window—is alert and attentive without being capable of complete apprehension. We are reminded of dogs as an intermediary between mankind and the rest of creation, both sublunary and celestial; dogs remind us daily of our animal selves and are audience to our higher moments.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/01/the-dogs-gaze-a-visual-history-thomas-w-laqueur-book-review

When the weather is good and walk my dog in the park I feel like the happiest, the smartest, the most beautiful person in the world. I don’t know how or why this happens, but it’s an unmistaken feeling.