Author: robert.adlington
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Comment Peter Thiel et les techno-réactionnaires américains récupèrent la pensée du philosophe chrétien René Girard
Selon le philosophe, le désir naît toujours de l’imitation de celui d’un autre. Parti aux Etats-Unis en 1947, il remarque en enseignant le français que le « désir mimétique » est l’un des grands ressorts des récits littéraires. A partir de Proust, mais aussi de Stendhal, Dostoïevski, Flaubert ou Cervantès, René Girard montre que, loin des clichés romantiques…
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10M — Art Discovery Engine | 110,000+ Public Domain Works
Explore 110,000+ public domain artworks from 17 world-class museums. Search by feeling, mood, era, or medium. Free to browse, download, and use. — Read on www.10m.co/
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Liberals and Conservatives See Different Victims: Moral Disagreement Is Explained by Different Assumptions of Vulnerability
all forms of judgment—including moral judgment—is a process of categorization (McHugh et al., 2022). When people wonder whether an act is immoral, they are questioning how well it belongs in the category of “immorality.” For 50 years, we have known that categorization judgments involve the process of template comparison, where our minds compare a potential example…
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The trajectories of science and AI – Marginal REVOLUTION
You know, I’ve read a lot of texts from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Adam Smith is one of them, but there’s many others, and a lot of people are for what’s going on, they understand they will be richer, maybe healthier. They do see the downsides, but they have a pretty decent…
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Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning – The Atlantic
Everything that displays a pattern is pregnant with boredom,” Brodsky told those flabbergasted undergrads. Of course, much of what displays a pattern—lifelong friendships, enduring marriages, serious scholarship, the making of art, prayer, Sunday mornings in winter—is also pregnant with meaning. Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes…
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Why even ‘perfect’ AI therapy may be structurally doomed – Marginal REVOLUTION
But all else equal: does infinite, on-demand therapy—even assuming the highest quality per unit of therapeutic interaction—sound like a good idea to you? I can tell you, to me it does not. First of all, despite detractors’ claims to the contrary, the basic idea of therapy is not to make you dependent for life—but rather,…
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Hoard things you know how to do – Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison’s Weblog
The key idea here is that coding agents mean we only ever need to figure out a useful trick once. If that trick is then documented somewhere with a working code example our agents can consult that example and use it to solve any similar shaped project in the future. — Read on simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/hoard-things-you-know-how-to-do/
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Archive — Modern Illustration
Archive — Modern Illustration — Read on www.modernillustration.org/archive
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ZARA PICKEN
The online illustration portfolio of Zara Picken, an illustrator based in Lincoln, England. She works with UK and international clients, creating illustrations for editorial, publishing, advertising and more. — Read on www.zarapicken.com/
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40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor | Reuters
For example, crosses were found only on tools and animal figurines, but not on human figurines. The researchers analyzed more than 200 Stone Age artifacts that bore these signs, dating from about 43,000 to 34,000 years ago, from four cave sites in southwestern Germany associated with a culture called the Aurignacian. The Adorant figurine, for…