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It’s funny that PDFs sometimes circulate better than web-optimized pages; there’s something about strict formatting that establishes authority. Physical books can also last a long time.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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What determines a society’s health is not the existence of an elite, but the effectiveness of the elite, and whether the relationship between the elites and everybody else is mutually respectful.
~ David Brooks via The Atlantic
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There’s a pleasure in being told what we already know, in a way we’re already used to. That’s why so much human writing and storytelling does exactly that. We go to a Hollywood movie or pick up a romantasy novel or attend a Sunday sermon knowing what to expect, and our expectations are almost always met.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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via Futurism:
Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday
Was this a huge coincidence, or is something else going on behind the scenes?
by Frank Landymore
published on September 4, 2026
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When you think about trade with Canada, it’s useful to imagine aluminum not as a metal but as electricity in solid form.
~ Bill Saporito via The New York Times
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Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic
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