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Koroly argues that the debate surrounding meaningless work misses a deeper philosophical problem: we've become too dependent on jobs—any jobs—to define our humanity. The real issue isn't finding bette...
Read more →Scott Alexander's review of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' reveals how our brains malfunction when faced with scary but uncertain threats that would require life changes. We suddenly become stri...
Read more →Drawing on Allen Grossman, Ben Lerner argues that every poem is, by definition, a failure. A poet begins with a transcendent vision but must express it in finite language. This gap between the ideal a...
Read more →People are less weird than they used to be. From crime rates to cult formation, from scientific breakthroughs to website design, deviance is declining across every sector of society. Adam Mastroianni...
Read more →India's three-decade ascent relied on a fundamental assumption: the world needed more cognitive labor than humans could supply. That premise is dissolving as artificial intelligence automates the exac...
Read more →The happy man is one whose reason recommends to him every act. The wise man's soul ought to be such as would be proper for a god—uplifted, fearless, and greater than his troubles.
Read more →Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them.
Read more →They are slaves, people declare. Nay, rather they are men. Slaves, you say. Nay, comrades. Slaves, you insist. Nay, they are unpretentious friends.
Read more →I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth-century prophets left their little villages and carried their 'thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns, and j...
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