I talked to Chip Conley about moral philosophy and midlife
“I would honestly prefer for a sentient AI to kill every last human being on the planet in some hideously gruesome way than for even one more of us to become the kind of amoral, thoughtless person-shaped vacancy that AI threatens to turn us all into.” — a sober assessment by Becca Rothfeld
“Faustus, after all, was an academic who set out subversively to stretch the boundaries of human knowledge, but wound up squandering his talents … performing feats of necromancy in order to divert successive potentates even wealthier than the families of Greenblatt’s … Harvard students.”
Magnificent writing about pain by William Giraldi @thebaffler.com
Terrific writing by Greg Cwik on William Gass
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