teams and enlightened society
This is Zeno of Citium, founder of the Stoic school of philosophy. He lived about 2,300 years ago, in 300 BCE, in Athens, Greece. Stoicism is still alive and well today so I will talk about it in the present tense. The Stoics are not little-s stoic, which we think of as the ability to [ ]
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes. AI 2027 is a fantastic, well-researched exploration of near-term…
I m starting a new project, and am feeling vulnerable. So I wanted to write something about it. To try something new, you have to be willing to believe in something when few others do. You have have to be willing to fail, sometimes in obscurity, and sometimes publicly. There s the risk of loneliness and embarrassment. [ ]
This is part of the book Summoning Genius.
I ve said before that an enlightened society would not be a racist society. I m fortunate to be part of a yoga community, 8 Limbs, that is doing work to understand and talk about racism. They ve helped me expand my mind and heart in this area. Recently there was an incident that occurred at the Northwest [ ]
In the Land of Witches there is, every year, a Festival of the Dreaming, during which all the witches dream the same dream together. The dream may be very simple. Last year they dreamt they were taking a pumpkin cake out of the oven. Everyone awoke in tears. The Dream Science obliterates distance as well [ ]
Via AskReddit, a beautiful description about how cells came to use mitochondria for energy: Back in the old times, when all life was single celled photosynthesis was invented by the cyanobacteria. This released a poisonous, toxic gas into the atmosphere that killed almost all life: oxygen. There were few ways to survive. Most of the [ ]
I m new to talking about racism. But undoing racism is one of my interests. And I want to be courageous, and I want live in a kinder, more tolerant, fair society. It s clear to me that an enlightened society would not be a racist society. So here goes On Thursday and Friday I attended a [ ]
Ursula K. Le Guin died a few days ago. She was a hero of mine someone I looked up to my whole life. I read her books as a child and as an adult. They expanded my mind and heart, helped make me an optimistic person, and made me interested in kindness. Jo Walton, [ ]
About gourds, one thing they say in Blue Ridge is, It takes a fool to grow a gourd,” and they notice how I always get a good crop. The other thing they say is that you have to hard-cuss gourd seed as you put them in the ground. To get their attention before they ll even [ ]