"I don't know anyone who likes the idea of destroying books. People have a visceral response to it."
Small independent bookshops across the US have been deluged with orders for books from the AI model companies—where they are "de-spined by an electric guillotine, fed into a
“The mother of all progress traps—industrial modernity, triggering Earth-system collapse and causing global resource depletion—has already snapped its jaws shut in the West, triggering a slow motion collapse of the Jenga tower it helped building over the past two centuries.”
The
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From 2022: philosopher & ethicist @AmandaAskell on how combative reasoning can help you develop more accurate beliefs. "Motivated reasoning is only as bad as your motives" askellio.substack.com/p/paladin-paci…
