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While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flourishing has not been *knowledge acquisition* for quite some time. Instead it seems to be within direction, discipline, and finding (or continuing to find) incentives to learn and build.
Agency and Schooling
Simon Sarris
From the point of view of relationshps which appears in the design, it is more *useful* to call the kitchen sink a “center” than a whole. If I call it a whole, it then exists in my mind as an isolated object. But if I call it a center, it already tells me something extra; it creates a sense, in my mind, of the way the sink is going to work *in* the kitchen […] It makes the sink feel more like a thing which radiates out, extends beyon its own boundaries, and takes its part in the kitchen as a whole.
Wholeness and Centers
Jack Cheng
Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome orb, that is just science. Oh a guy is building a superintelligent AI and also compiling a permanent electronic identification database of all humans, that’s great, that’s not an alarming science-fiction premise at all. I feel like if you made that movie you’d have to have some plausible back story about how the AI convinced people to hand over their iris scans to the AI, but in the real world you don’t.
Money Stuff: The Moon Emoji Is Securities Fraud
Matt Levine
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