Thought provoking

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad. — LessWrong

Blind spots and AI.

In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.

Maria Popova • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

The universe rather resembles a soup of experience-causing material, which your mind then separates into distinct, unified objects. And even this is inappropriately projecting our own conceptions of substance onto reality.

From Narrow To General AI • A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism

Subjectivity at its finest.

The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote presciently about the danger of a society of lonely individuals. She defined loneliness not as solitude—since solitude is where one can reflect on their connection to themselves and others and really prepare themselves for encountering others. She described loneliness as isolation and even alienation from others... See more

Sure, Mr. Hoover. • Hope beyond individualism

I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam. 10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.... See more

Scott Hambrick x.com

Brilliant. Terrifying. I’m old.

Whenever I see people defend the 40-hour workweek, I think back to this quote by David Cain:

'But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (..) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience,

the goal is not to separate the strands, it's to document the tangle.

(Ann Friedman)

a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.

Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time

TRUTH