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Schwartz is absolutely right to say that “what reading teaches, first and foremost, is how to sit still for long periods and confront time head-on. The dynamism is all inside, an exalted, spiritual exercise so utterly engaging that we forget time and mortality along with all of life’s lesser woes, and simply bask in the everlasting present.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
OpenAI didn’t expect ChatGPT to amount to much more than a passing curiosity among AI obsessives on Twitter: In a company pool wagering how many people might use ChatGPT during its first week, the highest guess was 100,000 users. (The tool hit 1 million within the first five days.) The product was intended to be the software equivalent of a concept car. Instead, it became one of the most popular applications in the history of the internet.
One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear
Galaxy Brain
The theater critic Terry Teachout talks about plays that flatter their audience, that reassure them that the beliefs they came into the playhouse with are the ones with which they should leave: he calls this the “theater of concurrence.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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