This was an excellent episode, very dense in ideas and concepts. Highly recommended.
Video of the talk I gave at the Cultural AI conference at NYU back in March is finally up (thanks again to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for having arranged this excellent event). www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYu9...
One of the things mentioned was the Walgreen Lecture series at the University of Chicago (which, in addition to Strauss, hosted Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt, George Kennan, and Carl Sandburg). Here’s some fascinating history of their origin: chicagoreader.com/news-politic...
waiting out the rain
YouTube video by Remarque NYU
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The drugstore magnate gripped the country with his charges of ”Communistic influences” at the University of Chicago in the 1930s.
Good piece by Bertrand Meyer about AI for software engineering:
Maxim Raginsky
Maxim Raginsky
Maxim Raginsky
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Maxim Raginsky
@leifw.bsky.social they have this! www.spinelessbooks.com/product/outp...
White Negroni, Mood Indigo edition
1oz Empress 1908 indigo gin
1oz Luxardo bitter bianco
1oz C. Comoz vermouth blanc
Stopped by a new bookstore (opened this Friday): Spineless Books. They have a small, well-curated selection, books are alphabetical by author but not arranged by genre. I browsed for a bit and spotted Italo Calvino, Brian Eno, Stanislaw Lem, Georges Perec, John Wyndham, etc. www.spinelessbooks.com
One hilarious thing about Magnifica Humanitas is how hard it seems to have triggered the rationalists. "But the Pope doesn't talk about instrumental convergence!" "Has he even read the Sequences???"
