Tom White

Suscipe . It’s the great prayer of surrender:

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and all my will—all that I have and possess. You, Lord, have given all that to me. I now give it back to you, O Lord. All of it is yours. Dispose of it according to your will. Give me love of yourself along with your grace, for that is

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Cesare Borgia had Cicero memorized and used it to set fire to half of Italy. By some measures, life expectancy in Italy fell during the Renaissance, as greater wealth translated into larger armies and more destructive wars.

tylercowen

@tylercowen

Today will go down as some kind of turning point. Somewhat arbitrarily, but it is OK if journalists and historians have to present things in that manner.

Technology is changing one of the most powerful forces in shaping society: ambition. What the most ambitious people choose to do with their lives has a profound impact on society, the economy and culture. It’s changing, fast.First, that digital technology is the most recent in a series of ‘technologies of ambition’ that have enabled ambitious... See more

Hildebrand points out that these values are all around us. The value of reality, which is also the value of truth , is one such value. Reality is not something that we control — rather, it controls us. It is composed of what actually exists . For all of these reasons, Hildebrand argues that reality has a real value to it, meaning that you have an... See more

The chart tells two opposing stories, so interpretation is key. Anthropic’s reading of this chart is “look how much room there is to grow.” They write: “As capabilities advance, adoption spreads, and deployment deepens, the red area will grow to cover the blue.” The authors’ interpretation leaves no doubt: the blue area is the future tense of the... See more

For Satan, divine power means doing whatever you want – not serving anybody. It certainly doesn’t mean setting limits for yourself by humility.

Jason Koebler of the tech news site 404 Media believes the trend represents what he calls the “zombie internet”. The rise of slop, he says, has turned the social network into a space where “a mix of bots, humans and accounts that were once humans but aren’t any more mix together to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection... See more

He told me that it was impossible to sell out because: “The art that sells best is best . ”

Mull that over for a second: The art that sells best is best.