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Anthropic’s office is surprisingly AI-first, even for an AI company
Employees now rely on Claude for most of their work, turning a chatbot into something closer to an operating system.
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Apr 141 min read
The Pope Speaks Out For Peace
Why the Pope has become more outspoken Related
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Apr 141 min read
Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected
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Apr 131 min read
Continued conversation re: gravity, ...while once more uncovering serious usage jeopardies and clear and present dangers of A.I.s which rest upon too static LLMs (UII w/Claude)
DM To continue our last (extensive) conversation, within quantum physics, does gravity play any validated roles (or are all particles too small, and uncertain, so as to discover any related effects )? Great thread to pull on — the tension between quantum mechanics and gravity is one of the most fertile (and humbling) frontiers in physics. I'll do some deep research on this right now. Gravity in quantum physics research Research complete• Writing and citing report... 314 sou
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Apr 1325 min read
‘Where the Music Had to Go’ Review: Dylan and the Fab Four
Bob Dylan and the Beatles weren’t mutual admirers at first. They eventually recognized that they were peers rather than rivals.
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Apr 131 min read
‘Hubris’ Review: When Athens Became an Empire (...History Rhymes?)
After its triumph in war with Persia, Athens under Pericles began to treat its allies as subordinates to be exploited.
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Apr 131 min read
How Did Samuel Alito Become This Angry?
A quiet, bookish justice’s personal leanings have become ever more overt.
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Apr 131 min read
The Case for Looking Away From Suffering
We’re told that constant attention is a moral duty, but averting our eyes can help us reflect and respon d.
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Apr 131 min read
‘Mutiny’ Review: The Lure of the Union
Faced with a tough labor market, some college graduates turn to left-wing activism when they can’t land the right job. But how many?
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Apr 131 min read
In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Kids
Feisty children can be exhausting. They also possess a moral fire that deserves cultivating.
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Apr 131 min read
A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here
America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.
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Apr 91 min read
How to Be Less Busy and More Happy
If you feel too rushed even to read this, then your life could use a change.
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Apr 91 min read
In search of elegance
A counterintuitive antidote to turbulent times.
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Apr 91 min read
An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.
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Apr 81 min read
I’m an American living in Europe. It’s leaving the U.S. — fast.
Europeans are hedging against coercion in security, trade, education and everyday life.
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Apr 81 min read
The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking On AI
Their careers spanned the personal computing, internet and smartphone waves. But some older workers see AI’s arrival as the cue to exit.
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Apr 81 min read
Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong
Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived.
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Apr 81 min read
Homeostasis and The Universal Holophren. (UII w/Claude)
DM Another good morning (I'm casting a shadow!). It seems homeostasis is conventionally considered only physically, such as an aspect of physiology. However, it seems this is an equally relevant as holophrenic construct, and is so in all 13 areas of the Universal Holophren™. Indeed hubris, humility, curiosity, learning, etc. could be perhaps be better understood considered in this context. Good morning — and well noted, the photons are acknowledging your presence. This is a g
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Apr 822 min read
More Money Makes People Happier, But Not at Work
MORE MONEY CAN BUY A BIGGER house or a better car, but it can’t buy a nicer boss, says Wharton’s Matt Killingsworth.
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Apr 81 min read
THE FEELING OF BECOMING LESS AND LESS OF A PERSON
In Ben Lerner’s new novel, technology divides us further from one another, and ourselves. Excerpt: "Let’s hazard an assertion: On or about June 2007, human character changed. To be more exact—because the phrase human character now feels antique—we might say instead that the human sensorium changed. By this we don’t necessarily mean a sudden and definite alteration in how we perceive the world—in the forms, sources, and amount of information we absorb, and in how we conduct o
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Apr 71 min read
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