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Maybe a throwaway comment, but - we should write this sci-fi! We build the futures we imagine. We've imagined plenty of evil or chaotic neutral bots. How about chaotic good ones?

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

The Medici banking family financed the bulk of the Northern Italian Renaissance for the price of a mid-sized yacht in today’s money. Our billionaires are historically uncultured.

Science/religion debates yielded the ill-conceived "god of the gaps" concept, relegating god to a filler in then-current gaps in human knowledge. AI discourse offers a similarly misguided "human of the gaps" approach, relegating the human to gaps in AI capabilities.

Mood.

Yes. And the one state of the US is, ironically, Texas

Shakespeare was fine for an era that valued ravishingly beautiful language and astonishing insight into the human spirit but we have moved on from all that. Grow up

Maybe this is the problem with this whole autofiction/quasi-autofiction wave, of young novelists writing out of the silo of their own lived experience; you should write out of the unlived life, the one you pine for, that bothers you in nice dreams, life you’ve felt left out of.

One-sentence review of Materialists: Everyone in this film needs friends

The fun of telling people "we lead an existential summer camp in the woods" is now amplified by saying "also, I teach young ppl how to pull off a heist" Totally in love with my colleagues & what we're building - take a peek at Rick Benger's beautiful articulation here!

what a time: an abundance of capital and tech and optimism … strangled by a poverty of imagination

300,000 years of human history. How lucky we are to have lived in the same 49 as Andrea Gibson

If someone you know is obnoxiously self-inflating, try complimenting something specific about the way they behave/think. Grandiosity is the flip side of generalized insecurity. Ironically, targeted affirmation is one cure - seeing someone in a small but real way that rings true