provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell, “A childish letter” for Jewish World Review (1998)
“Humans are condemned to be free.”
-Sartre
A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the majority of respondents would prefer to live in a world where TikTok and Instagram did not exist!
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
these tools benefit the highly skilled more than the less skilled .
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
referring to AI
We belong to times far more than we belong to places. We just don’t realize it because we can’t travel in time and can never see our time from the perspective of another. - vgr
with tiktok temporarily closed, maybe it’s time to rethink how we use the internet. imagine if instagram shut down at 9 pm, like a grocery store, or X closed at 11 pm (open late, but not 24/7).
we might all feel a little less pressure—to read, to post, to exist online all the time. maybe we’d sleep better, feel calmer, even be happier. a digital ... See more
Frank by Seth Brown
The Misalignment Museum
Be an IDIOT! Though he doesn’t mean it like you should just be stupid. In fact the pejorative use of the word idiot is actually a fairly new thing in human history. Back in Ancient Greece for example the equivalent of the word we now use as idiot… really just meant someone who was a common person who didn’t really participate in public affairs or a
... See moreEpisode #189 - Transcript — Philosophize This!
philosophizethis.orgwe USED to have communities without communication. NOWADAYS we have communication without community.