Here’s a very insightful essay on the changing role — and increasing importance of — human judgment in the world of AI: Hollis Robbins, “AI & the Last Mile.” A couple excerpts: While we worry about AI replacing human judgment, the real story may be how AI is creating a market for that judgment as a luxury good, available only to those who can pay for the “last mile” of human insight.
Parables are strange; finding your life transformed into a parable, even stranger.
Boy do I wish I had been in Chicago last Friday 🎵
Currently reading: The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
It’s time. Let’s do this. 📚
It’s a glorious time to be an American tennis fan. Half of the US Open men’s & women’s semifinalists are American! Unreal. 🎾
Currently reading: All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart 📚
Finished reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot 📚
Currently reading: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 📚
Currently reading: Range by David Epstein 📚
A brief, powerful interview with Uruguay’s former philosopher-president, who is now battling cancer. Though I disagree with him on many things, he has a lot of profound, simple wisdom to share: Humans can create infinite needs. The market dominates us, and it robs us of our lives. Humanity needs to work less, have more free time and be more grounded. Why so much garbage? Why do you have to change your car?