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The Thinker, the Translator, and the Audience
A Small Name for a Larger Question Living outside Japan, I sometimes encounter a new Japanese expression after the conversation around it is already well underway. By the time it reaches me,…
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The Intelligence That Cannot Move a Text Box
Two Experiences of the Same Intelligence I recently found myself moving between two very different experiences of artificial intelligence. In one, I was having an extended conversation about ideas. We moved across…
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The Tools Between Thought and Words
A Writer Who Never Left His Word Processor There is something wonderfully anachronistic about imagining Seigo Matsuoka at work in the 2020s. Around him was a sophisticated intellectual and publishing organization. His…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.