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What the Author of ‘Frankenstein’ Knew About Human Nature

Link: Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models by Jacob Pfau, William Merrill & Samuel R. Bowman — LessWrong

Gen Zers struggling to stay in work or school– and the parents who are at a loss

What Thucydides really thought about historical analogies | Aeon Essays

Philosophus Autodidactus

Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares(2021)

List of people offering their time for free to have a "coffee chat"

The song that ended Europe's longest running fascist regime

The First Website

I Kinda Hate the Internet Now

Camus, Albert and the Anarchists

Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?

Opinion | This Is What a Miracle Drug Looks Like, and It Costs Only $5 to Make

John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 | American Philosophical Society Library & Museum

The Universe as a Computer

Philosophy Is an Art

"Why I Write" by George Orwell (1946) — LessWrong

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

Any fun ways to learn Emacs?

Rhyme as Reason

Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study

You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it

What can LLMs never do? - Marginal REVOLUTION

The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages