- “Frictionmaxxing” tries to avoid cognitive laziness from AI (30% of workers), but employees are more ready to use agents than employers, via FT.
- “As disciples of Jesus, we must not live as if we are autonomous individuals with infinite options. We must allow others to lay claims on us, to limit us even. To go deep with God always involves going deep with others, being rooted in a place, a community, a tradition, a church,” writes Tish Warren in her new book, excerpted in Common Good.
- Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute: “…producing wealthy, successful grads can end up being a bad thing if they’re ignorant, morally adrift, and easily manipulated by bad actors—human and machine alike—in the attention economy.” Via EdNext.
- David Brooks’s latest: “What we should take from the traditionalists is the idea that restoring our society’s connection to its humanistic legacy and long-standing sources of meaning can actually better help us realize the promises of progress.” He covers Spengler, Guénon, Kingsnorth, Lasch, Reno. His historical narrative acknowledges that “there’s never been a tranquil resting spot, and there never will be.”
- Anthropic could grow 80x this year, via NYT. Amodei: “I’m hoping for some more normal numbers.”
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