Posts:
- Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
- Linguistic Phenomena:
Vidoes:
- Did Dua Lipa ACTUALLY Plagiarize Levitating?
- Using AI to accelerate scientific discovery - Demis Hassabis
- You Can’t Hear This Chord Without Crying.
Quotes:
Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World)
- “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.