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“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann
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The book goes on to suggest a better path to future prosperity, consisting of:
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of compet... See more
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of compet... See more
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
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The world is bad for many reasons. But you can't address them if you can't look up from your phone.
Kieran McLean • Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
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The rules had been constructed long before I was born, and I did not know yet I was allowed to break them or redefine them or ignore them entirely.
— Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You
The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
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what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
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I have long been a subscriber to the idea that any intelligence needs to be embodied and situated. The very first problems a baby has to solve are, How do I move my body? How do I move around in the world? Those tasks are entirely missing from existing large language models. And, as many people noted, the phrase “large language model” is a misnomer... See more
Alison Gopnik • Developing AI Like Raising Kids
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To be platform-pilled means that one’s conception of truth is the version that best serves the platforms' goals.1 What we think of as popular, trustworthy, engaging, or even virtuous is filtered through the platforms' logic.
Tara McMullin • "Wait, I think you're platform-pilled"
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“The ability to ask beautiful questions – often in very un-beautiful moments – is one of the great disciplines of a human life.”
David Whyte
Issue 04 — The Beautiful Truth
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