erudition and fearlessness amongst top academics that is both tremendously appealing and at the same time incredibly deceptive. Deceptive because when both appear to dominate at the same time. To presume that erudition must dominate is to miss the incredible amount of risk-taking and freeness of thought that is necessary for top scholarship, yet to presume that risk an freedom dominate is to miss the fact that risk and freedom not fully tamed by erudition are, simply, idiocy.
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§ Schrödinger’s AI is possibly broken and possibly working. (Also: vLLM for v620)
§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
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