Join 📚 Jim's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jim's read, .
Not knowing what’s coming next—which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future—presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Four sentences, then, before I stop.
We follow a God who did not stay in the cloud of heaven. He took on flesh, and walked among us, and let us nail Him to a tree.
We follow a God who did not send an algorithm. He sent His Son.
We follow a God who did not optimise. He loved.
We follow a God who did not solve the problem of human suffering by abolishing suffering, but by entering it.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
Yeah, if Muskism is actively trying to eliminate the workers paycheck, and it’s not integrating people via mass consumption, who is actually funding all of this? Like how do you build a planetary scale empire with satellites and rockets and gigafactories if you aren’t relying on a massive middle class buying your products? That is the million dollar question.
And the AI models latched onto it immediately. The answer, according to the sources, relies on two pillars. State symbiosis and financial fabulism.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
jjn1
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise