Category: Link Library
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K-12 Education Spending
There is very little more essential to a free society than universal literacy and adequate public education. It is a civil rights issue. It is the foundation for absolutely everything else. To fail here is to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to a lifelong struggle. Quote is from The Argument’s post in…
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On reading
Found this interesting. I don’t check as many books out from the library because they feel impermanent that way.
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World War AI
https://www.epsilontheory.com/world-war-ai
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How to Understand Things
An essay from pandemic times. Which has some uncomfortable realities in it. Mainly, good thinking requires more focus, more curiosity, less concern about what others think, and so on. https://substack.com/home/post/p-111014900 People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books…
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Confidently Wrong
Uh oh. This spells trouble for the staunchly, and always, anti-expert crowd. Most of them are on Twitter and host podcasts (of which I listen to). Most importantly on this issue: The authors suggest leaning on social norms and respected community figures instead.
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The Monks in the Casino
The Monks in the Casino by Derek Thompson A brief theory of young men, “the loneliness crisis,” and life in the 21st century Read on Substack
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The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously
“We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.” What an unfortunate reality the American church, and evangelical movement specifically, will need to be confronting now. I remember reading a decent amount of…
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Baby Shoggoth is Listening
This subject is interesting to me. I find I don’t get particularly drawn up in the subject of legacy, but the framing of impacting the AIs by showing it who you are and what you find important is interesting. I don’t think I’d say that I have to write so that the AIs know me.…