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Latest — Dec 18, 2024

AI & Kids

This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer scientists are continually surprised by the creativity displayed by new generations of A.I. Consider that lying is a sign of intellectual development: Children learn to lie around age 3,

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Conversation

In The Conversation section of the New York Times (alas, paywall), Bret Stephens reflects on "the efforts on college campuses to revive the dying art of conversation, as a remedy against angry campus politics." He says: conversation for the purpose of learning rather than scoring points isn’t

◎ Arbitrage | 2 Things

It has been some time since the last time one of these got posted/sent out, but I have found two things I want to share. |1| READING (blog)—The Red Hand Files is an epistolary blog of the musician/artist Nick Cave. The posts are Cave's response

From78-013

Why do a podcast about this? I continued to explore questions that came up during the last episode. Why am I making a podcast about the subjective experience of time? * Why focus on the subjective experience of time? * Why do so in the form of a podcast?

From78 - S2.E011

We know that time is limited... In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.

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How would I describe this podcast? I start to explore what this podcast is...

From78 S2.E011

We know that time is limited... In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.

From 78 - S2.E010

Season 2 I made the last episode of the first season of this podcast four years back... But I've been thinking about it a lot lately, so I made a new episode. Let's see where things go from here.

Beshear’s words

Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article is paywalled) When most Americans wake up in the morning, they are not thinking about politics. Americans wake up thinking about their jobs and whether they make enough money to

The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing. Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation. I’ve been thinking