This is a topic I keep dancing around, in pieces like Most Human Wins, Modern Magnificenza, and The Return of Magic. Today's essay is the closest to a manifesto I've come:
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Technology Creates Means, Not Meaning: Our Role
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Something I've been thinking and reading a ton about is the idea that as means grow, meaning seems to shrink. Technology creates means, but we shouldn’t expect it to create meaning. It can create the space for us to create meaning, but actually creating meaning is up to us.
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Book Clusters and Attention Mechanisms in AI
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book clusters is great. roughly ~attention/meaning.
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Early American Industrialists Project in Progress
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do it! early American industrialists was a fun one, doing ~attention right now.
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Using Claude and ChatGPT for Deep Topic Recommendations
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really depends what topic you want to go deep on. claude and chatgpt are pretty good at recommending, particularly if you say "i read x, I want more on a similar topic"
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Everything is Technology: Fundamental Perspective
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Everything is technology. https://
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Stripe Startups Program: White-Glove Payment Processing
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Brought to you by our friends at @stripe Startups If your startup plans on making money, you're going to use Stripe anyway, get the white-glove experience by applying here:
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AI breakthroughs and biotech advances reshape policy landscape
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America releases AI Action Plan.
DeepMind makes Nat Friedman model.
Proposed gene editing for species resilience.
The boys get their own safe, hormone-free Pill.
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Modern Accountants: Today’s Cowboys in the Digital Age
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You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys.
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Social Media Sin Tax: Regulating Platform Usage Time
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Proposal: Social Media Sin Tax $0.0x per minute for each minute each user spends on a platform over 1 hour per day.