David Schaaf

In the Book of Genesis, humankind is described as being created in God’s image, reflecting our innate desire to work and create. Its importance could not be emphasized more—through the very fact that the Bible and Torah begin with “ In the beginning, God created ...” (emphasis mine). From a nonreligious perspective, Aristotle described people as... See more

But what I also love about the Zweig biography is that it also gives us solutions: Turn inward. Master yourself. Take your education into your own hands. Do “not fall for every smooth talker,” as Marcus Aurelius would say. Read, study, and converse with “the rich souls of times past,” as Montaigne said, for “history,” Zweig added, “is [the] great... See more

A useful way to reason about AI-driven discovery, then, is not as a monolith but as a chain of agents: each responsible for a specific decision boundary.

From the bottom up, the data and context platform provides evidence. But evidence does not appear magically as “metadata.” It has to be produced.

“All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been humans, thinking” | Jean de La Bruyère