reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
amazon.com
Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.comThe Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
nytimes.com
an evocative, beautiful piece of writing about new york city written just after 9/11. recommended by Andy Weissman.
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
The Belan Deck
amazon.com
Value Capture by C. Thi Nguyen
This pre-print article explores the concept of value capture, where individuals adopt externally-sourced values without adapting them to their own context.
philpapers.orgadding to my canon - this was excellent
AI will enable people with imagination more than it will enable people with money