David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
THE POORLY DEFINED PROBLEM OF BEING ALIVE
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
What we want in 2025
Yancey Strickler • What we want in 2025
This is intelligence. Not in the IQ sense, but in the "I know what matters" sense. In the "I know who I am without the algorithm telling me" sense.
Trend is not inherently bad. But when you build your identity around it, you become a vessel for the algorithm—not a creator of your own world.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
It’s not that Krishnamurti saw the mind as anything close to a computer. While a computational functionalist might argue that building a mind is as simple as building a machine, Krishnamurti believed our minds are so much more. But he worried we were selling ourselves short, letting our minds get stuck in mechanical routines like memory and... See more
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Dewey Decimal!
So far, 2024 isn’t giving me any joy.