Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent (more…)
Newsletter #0060 – Beware the fury of a patient man.
The line is from John Dryden and his poem “Absalom and Achitophel”, written in heroic couplets in 1681. I’ll put the entire poem at the bottom. It’s a GREAT read. Also, a similar quote: “There are three (more…)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous (more…)
Ridley Scott’s “Ridleygrams” for Alien, aka his unbelievably detailed and thought out storyboards that is another side to his professional fame.
More about this talent and his process here:
Newsletter #0059 – Genius is an event, not a person.
Hannah Gadsby was on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, and they said the title / subject line of this newsletter. I can’t stop thinking about it. Essentially, would gravity have never been figured (more…)