Link Roundup: October 8, 2024
Book reviews and article writeups for the week.
Posts
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (A Review)
A review of Jacques Rancière's The Ignorant Schoolmaster and a reflection on his critique of rhetoric.
Cannon Shot Epistemology
Maybe we can't shouldn't base our thinking on what AI is now. Maybe we should think harder about what it could become.
I Don't Know What to Do About AI, and Neither Do You
This is a rant.
Bookish Thoughts
Brief notes on good books I’ve read this year.
Link Roundup: September 9, 2024
A link roundup of articles and thoughts on practices of reading, why ChatGPT is still extraordinarily limited at writing, and the "missing questions" in our conversations about the future.
Link Roundup: September 2, 2024
A strange combination of a 1998 interview with Paul Virilio and a blog post about ways to make better decisions.
Link Roundup: August 26, 2024
A link roundup up full of technical skepticism and the benefits of cutting back.
Stay on the Bus: or, Optimization is a Dirty Word
A grammar-based argument about why seeking optimizations might just be a big waste of time.
Link Roundup: August 19, 2024
An article on the (lack of) regulation of solar power.