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For fear of embarrassing myself or creating an infohazard with a poor explainer, I will be sparse in my description. Just check it out. These ideas have legs. Longtermism is interesting. Effective Altruism is interesting.
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if you want to feel hopeful and unified with other humans
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keene - if you want to feel the opposite of hope about the nature of humans - very interesting and important to learn about how the greed of the Sackler family, doctors, legislators and more contributed to the opioid crisis
Outline - Rachel Cusk - basically just a story of a woman having conversations with people about the human condition
Nov 27, 2024
An adapted and edited talk given at FWB Fest (2023) from Are.na founder Charles Broskoski
A meditation on what we pay attention to, how it motivates and inspires us, drawing connections in our experiences, and more
Jan 21, 2024
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1. The crane wife - really popular a couple of years ago, a fantastic personal essay about relationships and a field-trip https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/Ā
2. Why keeping a pet is fundamentally unethical - very interesting essay, I donāt necessary agree with the premise but I think it made a great attempt and has changed how I see pets and our power in relation to other beings in https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical
3. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge. This is really cool philosophical (logic) paper, and i am bringing it to you in two parts - read the link first, it is an explanation of the paper (for those of us who are not philosophers). then read the paper itself (search The name of the essay in google- east to find a pdf) https://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers
4. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native - fantastic essay on what it sounds like, by Patrick Wolfe, the originator of the field of settler colonial theory. For me (stem guy, no arts background) itās pretty confusing and dense but I keep returning to it and taking a little more every time, especially bc of the great Australian specific analysis. PDF easily available online
Sep 30, 2024
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This city has the best climate in America. I love it so much. I wish I lived here. The AI researchers, the big tech yuppies, the fact thereās an ethnic neighborhood for cishet frat brosāI love it more than anywhere else in America. The group houses, the cults, the rationalists, the technoptimists, the pure and untapped creative alpha. I have literally not spent more than two weeks in San Francisco. Itās a social scene the size of Dimes with 100x higher impact. āOh letās go to clandestinoā No letās go to The Interval at the Long Now.
Oct 11, 2022
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I was walking around the Upper West Side this morning. It was 50 degrees. It was 6 am. I learned of this band a few days ago. I was sad. I was in a vaguely mystical state. I ran into someone from downtown. His girlfriend had broken her hip at Bella Ciao a few nights ago. They capture such a particular emotionāthis song is my favorite.
Oct 11, 2022
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āQRI's goals are to develop a precise mathematical language for describing phenomenal experience; to understand the nature of emotional valence; and to develop technologies based on this research that improve peopleās lives. It was founded in December 2018 by AndrĆ©s GĆ³mez Emilsson, Mike Johnson and Romeo Stevens.ā
Oct 11, 2022