good questions

Scott Alexander’s recent post argues that the best response to AI displacement isn’t optimization or doomerism—it’s play. Figure out what you actually want. Do the thing you love doing.

This is harder than it sounds. We’ve been socialized to optimize for homogeneity, not edge. But just as retail orderflow now moves institutional markets, the... See more

Life is a series of problems to be analyzed and addressed. How do we fix our failing schools? How do we reduce violence? These problem-centered questions are usually the wrong ones to ask. They focus on deficits, not gifts. A problem conversation tends to focus on one moment in time—the moment when a student didn’t graduate from high school, the... See more

Latvia’s Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was created because he was somehow obsessed Blender, the free/open-source 3D modeling tool. It’s now consensus that it’s just a matter of time that an AI-made film could be a worthy contender in mainstream awards. Creative production pipelines are increasingly “node graph native.” ComfyUI’s... See more

I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more