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Eric Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: Imagine that in every business school students were told, in all seriousness, that they were in training for being a billionaire. Imagine it was
Continue readingMaking a Living by Writing is as Rare as Being a Billionaire
James O’Malley at Persuasion: Imagine if after Oppenheimer successfully detonated the first atomic bomb, the rest of the world had just shrugged its shoulders and carried on as normal. Because
Phil Klay shares his views at Wisdom of Crowds: Morality and War: Two words that seem to have nothing to do with each other. Yet as recent events have shown,
By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: It’s a year of elections, and the internet is already rife with AI-generated political content. An AI robocaller mimicking Joe Biden made the rounds
Continue readingSay Hello to AI Steve, the AI Chatbot Running for Parliament in the UK
By Michiko Kakutani in Time Magazine: The confluence of multiplying political, economic, and social crises has made the military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) feel like a perfect
Daniel Bessner at Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment
Pranshu Verma in The Washington Post: Saurabh Netravalkar finds it hard to log off Slack. But a few weeks ago, the Oracle software engineer shipped his final code and set an
Continue readingAmerican Cricket Found a Star. He’s a Silicon Valley Tech Worker.
by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro at Youlin Magazine: I have been documenting Shikarpur’s cultural heritage since 1998, and the city’s maaris (mansions) and havelis have always fascinated me. The ornamentation on
Leonard Benardo‘s note at Ideas Letter: The New York Intellectuals were a hallowed group of writers and critics who were convinced of the power and art of disputation. Writer and
Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized: My friend Leopold Aschenbrenner, who I got to know and respect on OpenAI’s now-disbanded Superalignment team before he left the company under disputed circumstances, just released “Situational
Continue readingHow AI is Going to Transform Civilization Over the Next 5-10 Years
From Project Syndicate: Over the past decade, Ruth Ben-Ghiat has emerged as one of the English-speaking world’s leading experts on, and chroniclers of, authoritarian leaders in the twenty-first century. A
Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: Ed Hotchkiss was born in Denver in 1956 and remained thereabouts in the middle of the country through college at the University of Colorado, which is
Continue readingA Deep Dive Into New York’s Subways With Ed Hotchkiss