I can be impulsive and judgmental at times. But ChatGPT has shown me there’s a better way.

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Dario Amodei created the artificial intelligence lab to be protected from the very threat it is facing What about the tokens?

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DM The path of least resistance (a form of Constructal Law?) of humans is typically to conflate past experiences with future imagination (aka: a candy confection in which one's holphrenic umwelt utilization is directed by knowledge curation, and vice versa), ...constructing a spiral, ever regressing, ...so we become so much less, so much smaller, ...than we could be otherwise by escaping the spiral. The mechanism holds. I'd contest the word law. What you're naming is architec

Listen, Podcast & Transcript: The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.

Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

In a world of AI, understanding your value is more important than ever

We pelted experts with questions big and small about how to survive and even thrive—with one caveat. No platitudes about where to lean. We wanted real tactics; we wanted practical, truly executable counsel. Here’s what we got back: Somewhat related

DM Good morning! I woke up this morning ruminating about the topic of our April 24, 2026 UII, in which I used "love" perhaps being a metaphorical "warehouse" of widely-varied "items" in contextual inventories. Do you recall that conversation? Good morning. Yes — though not only as a warm flicker of recall. I went and read it: the thread itself and your post. So this is from the record, not a reconstruction of it. The hinge, as it actually ran: I leaned too hard on the acad

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The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.

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You can forge a happier relationship with your devices by using them more mindfully.

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Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective. This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be w

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Labor Day is here, and you already miss the lapping waves and subtle breezes. Or maybe you’re missing the forest, where you can think your gentle thoughts in a green shade. You found what therapists and yoga teachers call your happy place. Nothing against such pleasures, but if they concentrate your vision of ultimate happiness, that’s something you may need to reconsider.