Technology
god help us
Technology
1. Good human decisions combine general knowledge with context-specific information. 2. Human effort directed at improving cognition generates both types of information, with the primary private return coming from context-specific information. 3. Individual contributions to general knowledge create externalities on others who build on this general... See more
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don’t get silo’d with a personal agent for too long - quality degrades, you forget how to learn, knowledge collapses at scale.
The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.
Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
Big picture: Nearly all Fortune 1000 corporations today operate as extractive monopolies, claiming ownership over common resources and global technologies, while collapsing living standards — all for for private wealth hoarding. This model is unsustainable for civilization. And it’s not a real economy. It’s a wealth-extraction machine. Full stop.
Boycott List — Survivors Guide to Earth
full. stop.
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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I am very affected by place. Actually I think everyone is. Probably more than they realize.
Our surroundings act on us. Some foster chaos, others encourage enchantment. Broad landscapes, beautiful artwork, and ancient architecture fill people with awe. Office buildings with drop ceilings and an unimaginative palette of gray, screeching subways, and... See more
Our surroundings act on us. Some foster chaos, others encourage enchantment. Broad landscapes, beautiful artwork, and ancient architecture fill people with awe. Office buildings with drop ceilings and an unimaginative palette of gray, screeching subways, and... See more
Tommy Dixon • surroundings that speak of enchantment
FUCKING PREACH. I’ve been screaming my head off about this for two decades.
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
AI 2027
ai-2027.com • Mid 2025: Stumbling Agents
More from the lightcone group about a possible AI future, but taken with a grain of salt because it's written solely by Western-educated white men.
Think about how many barriers to entry and prohibitive friction ai is and will remove/reduce in the very near future en masse. Systems will break, society will be severely challenged.