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  Best I can offer is..

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  I have read a lot of books and many start to fall into established literary niches. What are some books that seem to break the traditional mold and do their own thing?

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  Yes he is right, targeting well-being directly is way more sane than pretending ‘market forces’ will mysteriously result in well-being despite all appearances

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  That ‘neutrality’ commitment by the university perfectly captures what most institutional commitments to political neutrality accomplish: repression. I’m sure it contributes to the thriving and open academic environment that the university system was designed to protect:)

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  I think AI is in a similar place as GMOs were 10 years ago. The technology isn’t inherently problematic but the main companies rolling it out seem to be doing so during a banner drop where the banner screams “I’m evil and I intend to burn this place to the ground.” We shouldn’t trust them because they’re practically telling us not to in the same breath they use to promote their products. I would say most of the main models available to the public fall under this boat. Just like GMOs this doesn’...

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  I like to think that sentence finishing has something to do with [brain synchronization](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/)

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  I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant. Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down. Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work we...