There's something prescient about the ethical non monogamy parts of The Mandarins being by far the most tedious. (This is a 1,000 page book that's mostly people fighting about which socialist newspaper to write for)
Thinking of AI as the creative world version of self checkout in that it almost fully outsources the work of putting meaning and life into a text onto the reader. Also the stealing
Thought this was an interesting counterpoint to the idea that the enlightenment focus on rationality and categorization originated the problems of modernity. The problem as ever is capitalism
This article points to something interesting, which is that the VC subsidy on a wide variety of products (delivery, ride shares, etc) has more or less run out and maybe one reason everyone feels broke is it's $50 to seamless 2 burritos all of a sudden. nymag.com/intelligence...
Spending my paternity leave watching Vincent D'Onofrio reprise his role from the first men in black in law & order: criminal intent, featuring weird detective
