reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
the personal essay genre is my favorite and i enjoyed this one
“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.”
AI will enable people with imagination more than it will enable people with money
YT is at risk of being a place where only the MrBeasts of the internet that can afford hyper-professionalized content beling or for sub-par AI junk thrown together by bots.
As I will use the term, then, a sermon is any message designed to change or reinforce what a group of people value. It might take the form of explicit exhortation, full of shoulds and shouldn'ts , oughts and mustn'ts . Or it may be entirely implicit, like the story of a selfless act that saves the day, huzzah! Commencement speeches, TED talks,... See more
Kevin Simler • Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
lovely, from my fave restaurant in London