Reading as healing
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Ultimately this is a personal story, which is fine, but it leaves the broader treatment of a view in AI ethics underserved, and engages with issues that here in 2025 feel downstream of the material on the wrong branch
I’ll be surprised if this book covers much nee ground for me, but I feel like I should give it a read anyways to see if it’s something to recommend to folks.
This is a book I wish I wrote, and also I long for more depth in this analysis. A good companion to Dan McQuillan’s book.
I went to an AI conference in Silicon Valley so I need to balance out my soul.
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, …
#8 on the Modern Library list. Relevant for today, but also fuck Stalinism
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, …
Onto #8 of the Modern Library list. This book may be the most relevant piece of fiction I’ll read given our current times.
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction …
I forgot how fast this book goes. First I’m taking off on a plane. Then I’m falling asleep. Next I know another 100 pages are behind me. That seems fitting. ML #18 done.
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction …
On to #18 on the Modern Library list. I read this book many years ago, but I made a mistake and I read it and Catch 22 back to back, which is a bad idea. Almost as bad an idea as when I watched Donnie Darko and Requiem for a Dream on the same weekend.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory has …
I learned a few things here, it made me think a bit. I’m also glad the book directly addresses attachment theory as explicitly not an identity model.
A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.
Attachment theory has …
Maybe I’ll figure out what everyone younger than 35 means when they get very upset about attachment styles.
Anarchism intensified, in actuality
Communism intensifies
A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of …
The first half of this book is a great overview of most of the basic questions about trans identity. The second half is a bit spottier—I think a lot of my grievance stems from a misread of, or engaging with those who misread, Butler. As someone desperately hoping to break the discursive cycles around trans identity, I’m not sure the book helps this, despite clearly trying to. It gives me a lot to think about.
A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of …
More transgender theory!
I did not expect this book to be a GPS guides missile aimed directly at me, an American expat in Europe going through mid-life crisis, but it is, and maybe that’s why my first thought is that it’s a masterpiece. But that would be unfair to some of the prose, which is sublime.