to be human

she reminds me that you can be dedicated and still have equanimity, that it is possible to have extremely high standards and still approach things lightly. That just because you worry more, doesn’t mean you care more. There’s a big lesson in there for people like me.

The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that. 

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The more sensitive

an instrument, the more useful and

expensive it is scientifically, like that

is what makes an instrument great is

its insane specificity. Its sensitivity.

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: There must be something you want to do.


• Pierre Bezukhov: I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when

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