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Loss of self. Of all of the forms of impoverishment that can be seen or felt in America, loss of self, or death in life, is surely the most devastating. Beginning with school, if not before, we are systematically stripped of imagination, creativity, heritage, dreams and personal uniqueness in order to style us into productive units for a mass, tech
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Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
At Summit, Frances Frei, a Harvard Business School professor, gave a talk about her belief that companies often get in trouble when they began to “wobble” in one of three areas: authenticity, logic, and empathy.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
I decided that the Internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want. That's what these connections do. And another way to say that is that the Internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience. I learned that the Latin root of “convenience” actually means assembling and agreeing. Isn... See more
JamesClear.com • "A Journey on the Information Highway"
Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job
every.toWith a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings ... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Letting us pick our own experts as a society leaves us listening to the loudest voice, not the most correct or beneficial.