Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters - Vox
Ian Millhiser • Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters — Vox
“… we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us." - Barry Lopez from embrace fearlessly the burning world
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Tim Ferriss from Tribe of Mentors
“Power is the currency of change, and policy is merely frozen power.” - David Rolf
“If you are looking for something in your house and you finally find it, when you're done with it, don't put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.” - Kevin Kelly - My Addendum: this applies to notes in a PKM system too!
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
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"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
- Marcus Aurelius
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the
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