There are so many from The Free Press. I think you should just check in on them without my prompting at this point. I put in two at the end.
Technology, Decentralization and Recentralization David Foster. Communication decentralised with the internet, but is now recentralising. Probably not good.
Two From Works in Progress
What caused the end of the Bronze Age? The puzzle has never been the collapse. Collapse of civilizations happen all the time. That level of organisation is a fragile thing. But why did nothing rise again for centuries? This is a good theory.
Mosquitos are a Choice I do get suspicious when people say "If we only had the courage."
I love N3's thinking, even when it is on subjects I care little about. Dinosaurs that evolved ultra-high intelligence. My first thought was "Yeah, compared to other dinosaurs. Big Whoop." I am not a subscriber and don't have access to the rest of the story. But even in a few sentences - yeah, that's a good point.
Max Spero of AI-detector Pangram - who awaits the threatened lawsuits eagerly, because he is certain he can hold his ground.
I think the work that we’re doing is really prosocial,” he said. “The future that I’m working toward is a world where people value humanity and we find an inherent value in words or content from humans, even if Claude could have said the same things better.
A follow up to that: The Last Essay
I've been trying to read up about the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations for the last year or two. I just got a new book in the mail I haven't started yet: The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews.
ReplyDeleteI just sprung for a subscription to the bird-intelligence guy. Already interesting: "The research on intelligence in birds has important philosophical implications. Some philosophers - most notably the eliminative materialists - have argued that we should ultimately drop mentalist terms such as thought, feeling, and desire, and replace them with brain-level terms instead. But the fact that the same psychological functions can be implemented in different ways in different brains shows us that this isn’t possible, even in principle. Mentalist terms are here to stay, because mental states are multiply realizable. If we focused on the brain alone, we couldn’t even see the parallels between avian and primate abilities."
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