“I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a hypaethral book, such as Thoreau talked about — a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better.” ~ Wendell Berry The past week has brought sad news […]
Read more "Clue"In this week’s “Interesting Times” podcast, Ross Douthat interviews AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo (check it out here). Kokotajlo lays out the rapid rise in AI abilities. He predicts AI will soon be able to work autonomously, an inflection point, where AI begins to give itself tasks. In 2027, he predicts AI will take over software […]
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