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- "It turns out you can just do things about systemic injustice." Rutger Bregman @rcbregman recommends three self-help books for people who hate self-help books - link in replies
- Substack repostedSo, about that narrative that AI adoption = job loss...
- Substack repostedHollywood's AI Anxiety on Full Display as Google's A24 Investment Draws Fire newcomer.co/p/hollywoods-a… @cityofthetown
- The Golden Algorithm that reveals what unconscious emotions are driving your critical decisions, from executive coach Joe Hudson @FU_joehudson - link in replies
- Substack repostedWhaling was America's first oil rush. Moby Dick is its ethnography of that, and many many other thing. My review of the quintessential American novel. Reading Moby Dick walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/reading-moby…
- Substack repostedThe great paradox of the enhanced, optimized self: We spend all this time focusing on ourselves, yet the states we long for—those that give rise to our greatest contributions and the experiences that make life worth living—all require the opposite.
- Substack repostedSpent the day with a bunch of AI researchers, academics, and industry folks yesterday. Takeaways: - China is winning on open-source by a mile. - Talent drain to the frontier labs is increasing, and everyone is worried about the concentration of power. - Closed lab research is
- Substack repostedNot gonna name any names, but I'm starting to think that Substack deradicalizes public intellectuals by providing them with a steady income
- Substack repostedwrote about mental frameworks that help you recognize and jump through windows of opportunity when they open
- Substack repostedWe only write 1-2 primers a year because we want them to be durable. It’s simple to publish something market relevant for 6 months, but our goal is a piece you can return to years later and still derive value. Our Robotics primer meets that standard.
- Substack repostedEurope is having an intense and interesting debate over what to do on AI and geopolitics. Highly recommend this piece by @thorstenbenner and Jakob Hensig below in dialogue with this piece from @Caffar3Cristina: escapeforward.substack.com/p/the-sovereig…The paradox of 🇪🇺 AI sovereignty. Why the EuroStack approach won't deliver & why in scenario of near-term advent of "powerful AI" 🇪🇺 needs to build leverage to secure access to US frontier AI models. Latest piece with Jakob Hensing for @ForeignPolicy.





















