In Chinese, the term for “fortune-telling” shares a character with the term for “algorithm.”
~ Patricia Kim, an expert at the Brookings Institution via The New Yorker
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Silicon Valley has not demonstrated joined-up thinking for deploying AI. It would help if they learned from the central planners. The AI labs have not shown that they’re thinking seriously about how to diffuse the technology throughout society, which will require extensive regulatory and legal reform. How else will AI be able to fold doctors and lawyers into its tender mercies?
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belongs to phones.
~ William Gibson
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via The New York Times:
Gen Z Is Using A.I., but Doesn’t Feel Great About It
by Callie Holtermann
published on April 9, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence does not yet account for much job loss, but its arrival has magnified negative sentiments and has helped to create a collective despair, especially among the young and educated.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great