Finished reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 📚
Finished reading: The Nature of Oaks by Douglas W. Tallamy 📚
It seems like the people most awed by “generative AI” art are those least familiar with humanity’s greatest artistic achievements. Those most impressed by ChatGPT are least familiar with good writing, good philosophy.
Unfortunately, they’re the same ones who run Silicon Valley.
Don’t come at me with some “philosopher test” if Hegel’s not one of the possible results. Hegel should be the only possible result. Sheesh.
My friend Patrick worked with his daughters to make an awesome collaborative card game—Nature Kin—celebrating San Diego’s biodiversity. Check it out!
This World Cup’s group-stage matchday 3 has produced absolutely scintillating, wild, edge-of-your-seat soccer. So, of course, FIFA is considering a bunch of really stupid ways to destroy it. ⚽️
World Cup update: 🇺🇸 and 🇦🇷 are through, so I’m happy. I can enjoy the rest of the group stage without stress. ⚽️
Not surprised—it’s a great album! 🎶
Alan Jacobs on your lies, and mine:
In any given community, there will be a profound divide between those who believe that the most dangerous lies are the ones told by our enemies and those who believe that the most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Here. 🔗
Despite EA & crypto, we're still living in the Victorians' world 🔗💰📚
Derek Thompson’s short, pensive essay on his own entanglement with effective altruism (EA) and Sam Bankman-Fried leaves off before getting to a problem that enabled both, a problem with the Internet in general: we humans just seem to be at our best when operating locally, in-person. Just as crypto’s promise of “trust in a trustless world” struck many as ridiculous, so too EA has been ridiculed for its impersonal approach to altruism.