Tag: Society
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Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for…
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“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier to think about what others may need. But research suggests the opposite…
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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years – The Atlantic
To Dorsey, people are horses. Innovation is driving them out of existence. But people are coal—or, to be more precise, coders seem to be coal at the moment. Businesses employ 6 percent more software engineers now than they did a year ago, in part because corporate executives are desperate for workers to figure out how…
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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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Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
Amodei has a thought experiment I can’t stop thinking about. Imagine it’s 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments,…
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Tough Love: Do I Like Being Single Too Much to Fall in Love?
Half the time, we look over at our boyfriends-turned-husbands, with their graying hair and gorgeous eyes, the reassuring heft of them, which deters intruders and quiets our fears and calms the kids, and wonder what they’re still doing with us. Any time you give blood, you offer up a vein and suffer the pinch. Only…
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For a long time I have been predicting the return of phrenology – Marginal REVOLUTION
The Photo Big 5 provides predictive power comparable to race, attractiveness, and educational background, and is only weakly correlated with cognitive measures such as test scores. We show that individuals systematically sort into occupations where their personality traits are valued and earn higher wages when traits align with occupational demands — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/for-a-long-time-i-have-been-predicting-the-return-of-phrenology.html
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The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber
I think that when historians look back on the Trump era, they will be more likely to note the collapse in norms surrounding things like truth and corruption and the existence of a fair justice system than policy changes. Likewise, think about how in late 2025 the most popular podcasts in the country among right-wingers…
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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
political leaders could deploy almost limitless numbers of AIs to masquerade as humans online and precisely infiltrate communities, learn their foibles over time and use increasingly convincing and carefully tailored falsehoods, to change population-wide opinions. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-by-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media