reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle; they enter a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those val-ues; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning. Examples include becoming motivated by FitBit’s step counts, Twitter Likes and Re-tweets,... See more
PhilPapers
excellent work by C. Thi Nguyen
Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 2)
open.substack.com
Craft
doc.cc
averageness is a feature of modern life. scaling means figuring out what works on average.
Grimes: Pop Star Diplomacy and the Avant-Garde | Doomscroll
youtube.com“Most of the people I know working in AI—and I might have a biased sample size—are people who are inspired about fixing the world. They grew up on sci-fi, and they're from a really cool science fiction intellectual tradition that feels really modern, really American. I first got really caught up in that because, you know, in 2020 and stuff I was like, "Wow, the whole world is sad," and here everyone's really excited. Everyone's really happy, and everyone really wants to build America and really wants to make something great. But they are also fighting market forces. They're also just trying to stay alive.”
i wish i wrote this