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AI, Ethics, and You (opens the original)
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Good morning, philosophers,Last week I introduced a new series we’ll be exploring in the weeks ahead about how AI works, how to think about it philosophically, and what we can learn from similar moments in history. To start, this week we’re going to pop open the hood and look around. I want you to walk away from this essay able to explain five things to a friend at dinner, without needing a computer science degree to do it. Let’s go one simple fact at a time.Let’s begin with tokenization, b
AI, Ethics, and You (opens the original)
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Philosophers,Today I’m starting a new series, one that I’m writing to be helpful above all else.I’ve been struck by the amount of attention, intention, and energy that well, everyone it seems, is spending on “AI.”I put “AI” in quotation marks of course because I think we barely understand each other when we talk about mundane everyday things, let alone something as significant as one of the greatest technological leaps in human history.Just last week I was at an industry event wh
I've heard the road to every truth... (opens the original)
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(For proper enjoyment, play the above song in the background while you peruse today’s letter). A few months ago my wife and I were able to sneak away for a rare treat—one of our favorite artists playing in a small venue near our home. We settled into our seats just in time to strike up a conversation with a Danish man who flew in an hour before just for the show, only to return home on a red eye after the concert. Subtly, the harmony of an opening song began
Be Yourself (opens the original)
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Philosophers, When I was 14, my appendix nearly ruptured. I was living in Germany, the only member of my family who spoke German, and due to the cocktail of whatever the doctors had given me in prep for surgery, let’s say my German was less than optimal.Going in to that surgery—between the language barrier, and my age, and my confusion, and pain—I wasn’… Read more
There is no substitute (opens the original)
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Philosophers,Last week I wrote about building your own taste—intentionally curating what you actually like, instead of what an algorithm shapes for you.Before algorithms, there were other pressures shaping our desires. So much so, that while Slim Aarons was galavanting the world capturing attractive people doing attractive things, a well known French philosopher called Pierre Bourdieu set out to argue that taste isn’t a pure, personal aesthetic reflex. It’s a social pro
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