Finished reading: Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf 📚
Finished reading: America’s Theologian by Robert W. Jenson 📚
Finished reading: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders 📚
Finished reading: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚
Finished reading: The Humans by Matt Haig 📚
Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Finished reading: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s a big book with diverse parts so I have big and diverse feelings about it. 📚
Finished reading: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚
Perhaps [‘the history of anarchism, almost alone among modern social movements, is one of unrelieved failure.’]; but its failures are different and less shameful than the failures of Marxism. There are many ways for a social movement to fail, and I prefer those that don’t result in the murder of tens of millions of human beings.
Maybe a good question for leaders of any social movement: how will you fail? Failure is guaranteed but not all failure is equal.
A great test for Large Language Model AI’s would be to remove some artist’s specific work and see if it could be anticipated based on the remaining work. I don’t think the nature of super large datasets would ever allow this, though.