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It’s not just that living in a constant state of distraction is unpleasant, or that a life without willful thought and action is an impoverished one. If it’s true that collective agency both mirrors and relies on the individual capacity to “pay attention,” then in a time that demands action, distraction appears to be (at the level of the collective) a life-and-death matter. A social body that can’t concentrate or communicate with itself is like a person who can’t think and act.
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
There were three things GPT-3 returned to again and again,” explains Thomas. “The first was love, this profound sense that love is at the core of everything. The next was returning to the present moment, being aware of the present moment. The third was the fact that we are connected to everything, to the universe around us and to each other, which is foundational to Buddhism.”
What A.I. Means for Buddhism
Ross Nervig
Don’t get me wrong: I can code productively, and have built entire companies by doing so. But I’m not motivated by the code or the fundamental problems themselves. My motivation is always human. That inevitably means I’ve become more of a technical generalist than a deep expert on any particular technical topic; more or less the kind of person Robin described.
Being a Humanist Technologist
Ben Werdmuller
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