Sacha

The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.

But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more

Dit moet bovenal een herwaardering van klassieke moraliteit, liefdadigheid en de waarde van menselijk leven inhouden, evenals een verwerping van totalitarisme en de revolutionaire en utopische ideologieën en haar afgoden waaronder sociaal-darwinisme, globale dominantie, de socialistische utopie, de ‘volmaakte’ wetenschap en de mens zonder morele... See more

Stop trying so hard. Last week I discovered life's greatest irony in a coffee shop at 2 p.m., over-caffeinated and buzzing with excitement about a book titled Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, a treatise on living a life without objectives. What happened next honestly felt like a cosmic joke. My unfiltered brain dump about this book on X—this... See more

As Varoufakis points out in Technofeudalism , one of the paradoxes of capitalism is that when you as a worker are hired somewhere, there are two kinds of value being exchanged. There’s your ‘exchange value’, or how much money your time is worth in the free market. And then there’s your ‘experiential value’, the value of your qualities as a human... See more

Google also (separately?) released Deep Research, which is a truly useful agentic AI tool. Give it a research topic, and it'll spider through hundreds of websites, refining its search based on what it learns, before delivering a comprehensive report with citations.

Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" at a restaurant -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection often brings and, in the process, discovered that simply asking for what you... See more

Conn McQuinn

Jul 4

First, if we don't have sufficient in-brain skill and knowledge, we won't know what to ask the AI to do or how to interpret the products it creates. Second, if we turn over our thinking to AI, we are doing ourselves harm. I don't mean that in the metaphorical sense. Our brains are like muscles, and the harder they are used, the... See more

Cate Hall is a former lawyer and poker player currently working on AI risk mitigation.