Weekend Reads #450
A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions
Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas on AI - Link
At the century’s midpoint, the average person could be someone with no need to work and just one child. A lot will then hinge on how a species wired for scarcity takes to unprecedented comfort. - Link
Choosing what to keep human - Link
Can one AI system make another AI system audit it less independently, just by explaining it’s point of view? - Link
what doing math means in this new era, from a student’s perspective.- Link
“When does a machine win the Nobel Prize? And after that, will humans ever win it again?” - Link
As long as the team was doing well enough, winning all the time would have been vulgar and obvious. Notice that celebs have had a decade and a half to develop a thing for Manchester City, and haven’t. - Link
we only learn what’s valuable by choosing to commit to activities that have no inherent value. What counts is the pursuit of excellence under conditions of freely chosen constraint. - Link
Rethink... the Humanities - Podcast
