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Skill is a Prerequisite to the Good Life
To exit our present stagnation we may need to swallow our pride and pursue some normative skills.
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Making our ideas real
There are ways to be productive even if you have a laptop job
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Travelogue 🇸🇬 🇭🇰
Two observations from some time spent in a couple of the world's great cities
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The Homunculus Fallacy Revisited
We cannot reduce the scope of our lives without fundamentally diminishing who we are
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First Principles Tradition
We will never recover our ultimate concern using a 'view from nowhere'
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Culture but for want of a plan
No essay this week
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Interstellar and Our Future with the Robots
The challenge of AI means we must be willing to look beyond ourselves
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Worship is the Antidote to Ideology
We need to relate to something more than our pre-conceived notions of the world if we wish to change them
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Ben Parry's Newsletter
Ben Parry's Newsletter
A regular (usually monthly) essay on capability, cults, and complexity with a rollup of my favourite links. Aiming to become capable of a future that is noble, creative, kind and peaceful.
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