“I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differentiate—and then paused to let us really think about it. The whole subject is in the answer to that question. A chemical gradient in the embryonic fluid is enough of a signal to slightly alter the gene expression program of some cells, not others; now the embryo knows “up” from “down”; cells at one end begin producing different proteins than cells at the other, and these, in turn, release more refined chemical signals; …; soon, you have brain cells and foot cells.”

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

“Believing whatever someone in a position of authority says even in the face of clear evidence that it is false.Allowing someone in a position of authority to break the rules while everyone in the community is expected to follow them.Praising or forgiving the bad behavior of people in authority while simultaneously ridiculing anyone else doing the exact same bad behavior.Accepting any totalitarian punishment leaders give out even if that punishment is easily viewed as extreme or abusive.Attacking anyone who questions those in a position of authority.Relying on and trusting those in authority to provide safety and security.”

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2020-10-07-authoritarianism-of-code/

“Then consider that the left graph comes from a consortium of over 90 climate scientists, who took 7 types of samples from 32 countries. Meanwhile, the right graph comes from one data point: ocean surface temperatures of the Sargassum Sea. It shows that this region was especially warm during the Middle Ages, but when you look closer, this Medieval Warm Period was limited to the North Atlantic, where the Sargassum Sea lies.”

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-bad-is-co2

“Some will say: good, fuck ‘em. In the 2010s, Knowledge Workers told everyone to learn to code while they sipped kombucha and played Xbox in beanbag chairs. Then, Knowledge Workers sat inside during the pandemic while frontline workers risked their health to make Amazon and Uber Eats deliveries. Now, those same Knowledge Workers are building AI that threatens to eliminate work for humans across industries and make a very few people wealthy beyond imagination. And these same assholes want pity now?”

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad

Books like these have shaped human society and thinking for hundreds or thousands of years. Even before they were written people were reciting them to each other.

There is incredible depth in them that you can peel off forever.

AI generated shit will not give you this. It is average. It lack depth. It can imitate form but not the substance.

Human experience is not transferable. Even between humans it is hard. LLM cannot understand it. It can just imitate – badly.

Read classic books. It is more worth the time than random conversations with a chatbot.

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the-main-bottleneck

“Why did it work for Dubai? A big reason was that it was weak. That weakness was an asset, not a liability: The port was not huge, the Sheikh was not powerful, so if he tried anything, merchants would just pack up and go.”

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/dubai