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via The Atlantic:
The Patches That Want to Fix Your Sleep, Sex, and Focus
by Yasmin Tayag
published on November 11, 2025
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Now we have a special box of electricity that turns Reddit comments and old toaster manuals into cogent conversations about Shakespeare and molecular biology. The sheer competence of language models has already revamped the human quest for self-knowledge.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.
~ Bill Gates via Gates Notes
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In our zeal, we refuse to understand past generations as they understood themselves. We expect them to have organized their mental categories the way we organize ours—and we are greatly disappointed when we discover that they did not.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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via The New York Times:
Moving Back Home After College? All Your Friends Are Doing It.
by Noam Scheiber
published on August 2, 2026
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Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally impenetrable survey questions, and the real possibility that words such as “confidence” or “satisfied” might not mean the same thing from one generation to the next.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
AI is generating both immediate rapid changes and long-term tectonic disruptions – and MIT needs to respond.
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