Bradley Wargo
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Catholic seeking to share and understand
Bradley Wargo
bradleywargo.com
The point, then, isn’t that you should watch less CNBC and read more Ben Graham. It’s that if you read more Ben Graham you’ll have an easier time understanding what you should or shouldn’t pay attention to on CNBC.
Morgan Housel • Expiring vs. Long-Term Knowledge
We are social creatures and it is about balancing the constant stream of input with the long term view of knowledge and planting for the future
When you’re faced with too many demands, it’s easy to assume that the only answer must be to make better use of time, by becoming more efficient, driving yourself harder, or working for longer—as if you were a machine in the Industrial Revolution—instead of asking whether the demands themselves might be unreasonable.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
AI am what AI am
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
In my experience, the most useful approaches to AI are:
- Ask clearly bounded questions, where you can easily inspect the results.
- Don’t let AI make decisions for you. Instead, challenge it to broaden your options.
- Take advantage of the fact that it doesn’t have feelings, and use its honesty to get useful feedback.
ChatGPT is dumber than it looks
Embraced by countries with little to no arable land (like the Netherlands and Singapore) or by those with harsher environments (such as Qatar or Iceland), they are presented as a solution to food insecurity. At a time of global distress, repetitive droughts, rising sea levels, wars and diseases, industrial greenhouses promise never-ending physical... See more
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
Food, Plants, and Physical Life
There is a lot of promise wrapped into a single technology. What if power goes out or our ability to sustain them stops?
In his book, Quand les plantes n’en font qu’à leur tête (literally, When plants do as they please ), anthropologist Dusan Kasic explains that the term production “places humans ‘above ground’, on a pedestal and ‘outside of the world’, which has the consequence [...] of reinforcing human exceptionalism.” The notion of production, he argues,... See more
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
So much here in terms of the bible quote “Dust to dust” and how we are animated beings in the world. If we hold ourselves above it and not as stewards of it, we run the risk of losing our natural order and humanity. In short, greenhouses are good in moderation (like most things), but perhaps more education on soil is needed.
When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
“Many Christians are becoming Gnostics without realizing it.
Falling to the primeval temptation in the garden of Eden: "You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil", they succumb to the desire for godlike powers, deciding for themselves what is good and what is evil. The error of Gnosticism is that knowledge can be obtained and used to perfect
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