reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
fantastic! comedy is the highest form of genius.
the phrase "Can you believe it?" stuck with me - Alex jokes about how it can be a reply to almost anything, illustrating how it can mask deeper issues of substance.
Direct_and_indirect
greenlealane.comValue Capture!
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
Episode #188 Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
youtube.comThis was illuminating. My notes:
Negative power is the way people have been control for most of human history.
Negative power means being controlled by prohibition or limitation, telling people you can’t do this or that. Today, people are controlled through positive power. Positive power tells you you can be whatever you want, you’re in charge, so you have no limitations. As long as you can put your head down, focus, grind, achieve your short term goals, set new ones and achieve those.
Authenticity is an ad campaign of neo-liberalism. It's a self absorbed nightmare. People now have to define themselves through themselves without any sort of help from the outside. Everyone is their own little personal project. Everything we learn is not just learning anymore. It's an investment in ourselves. Everything is about mentally optimizing yourself working, producing more efficiently with your mind.
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, citatio... See more
PhilPapers
excellent work by C. Thi Nguyen
The Good Whale
open.spotify.comhaven’t been into a podcast this much since the Serial days. the story behind Keiko, the whale in Free Willy.
The Toilet Theory of the Internet
theatlantic.com
