Matthew Rosenberg
@mattjrosenberg
Brooklyn. Tech. Books. Bikes.
Matthew Rosenberg
My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a... See more
defector.com • Toward a Theory of Kevin Roose
“What makes László the more interesting character is that, however stubborn and exacting his judgments, he doesn’t allow genius or hubris to define him. Nor can he be reduced to his addiction, his war trauma, his love for his wife, his devotion to Judaism, or his uncertainty—as other Jews flock to Israel—about where that devotion begins and ends. When you think back on “The Brutalist,” it is not László’s arrogance but his thoughtfulness that is likely to stick with you—that, and the soft lilt in his hard scrape of a voice, like a cushion laid over gravel.”
Men like Henry Sugar can be found drifting like seaweed all over the world. They’re not particularly bad men but they’re not good men, either. They’re simply part of the decoration.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
nytimes.com
“I would expect Grok to discover new technologies that are actually useful no later than next year, and maybe end of this year,” Musk said. “It might discover new physics next year... Let that sink in.”
Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown
Things that won’t fucking happen for 200, Alex
It’s 2023. We don’t have to keep doing this.
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