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“Super ager” is used to describe someone over 80 with an exceptional memory — one at least as good as the memories of people who are 20 to 30 years younger.
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
One way of thinking about this is Daniel Kahneman’s simple model of thinking: System 1 and System 2. System 1 thinking is fast and intuitive. Current AI models’ pattern recognition and next-token prediction are good examples of this. System 2 thinking is slow and analytical, akin to genuine reasoning and understanding. It is System 2 thinking where... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton is known for his unconventional, absurdist stories. Skeptical that ChatGPT can mimic human creativity, he gives it a prompt about a blue whale with a tiny penis to test its capabilities. What follows is a surprising battle between Andy and ChatGPT to understand AI's limits. Andy presents the AI's narrative and his commentary in a metafictional journey exploring storytelling. The book provides a hopeful and hilarious meditation on AI, literature and human creativity, exploring whether AI can truly replace authors or match human spontaneity
Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025
When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, “The future of art but we don’t give a fuck”). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important
... See morePlotnick: There was this kind of touchscreen mania, where all of a sudden everything became a touchscreen. Your car was a touchscreen, your refrigerator was a touchscreen. Over time, people became somewhat fatigued with that. That’s not to say touchscreens aren’t a really useful interface, I think they are. But on the other hand, people seem to... See more