https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/ai-ethics-academia/675913/

I concur

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

FWIW: Russell and Norvig’s AIMA is a classic and they are just such great somewhere between researchers & engineers. Much to still learn I have from them

“Good casts: eclectic, quirky, witty” - @botornot

Also some of these folks like Peter Norvig just produce great content even beyond the topic of the content itself - highly worth it 

In a big believer that the cutting edge is mostly garbage; and the way to find out what is not garbage today is to study the past

For innovation incentivized by ideas.

Against incrementalism incentivized by arXiv preprints

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

If anything - go boldly and slowly and don’t worry about the noise

And this is something that scares me about the volume and level of noise. The considered, slower work gets lost. The meaningful writing, the research that takes years.

A parallel; you can get drunk on YouTuber motivational content, or read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

The true first principles are effectively timeless, and just repackaged into the media format / npm package du jour

An Atlantic op-ed isn't changing how I like to enjoy my Sunday afternoons

I was just talking with someone today about how there seems to be limited “timeless” music from last 100 years. Beatles, Aphex Twin.. Like Bach, Mozart etc. Most music from our age is classified by decade not by timelessness