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Will Bench
That is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
First the internet reduced the marginal cost of distributing content to zero. Now AI is reducing the marginal cost of producing content to zero.
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh i... See more
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh i... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
C.S. Lewis on the value of starting where you are:
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
A person can have the greatest idea in the world but if they can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.
We can, therefore, interpret neoliberalization either as a utopian project to realize a theoretical design for the reorganization of international capitalism or as a political project to re-establish the conditions for capital accumulation and to restore the power of economic elites. In what follows I shall argue that the second of these objectives
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