One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the p
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Luke Burgis 7 days ago

Everyone should read Harry Frankfurt on bullshitters.

The various “political correctness” scandals on college campuses, such as a group at Stanford recommending against the use of the words “American” and “immigrant,” get a lot of headlines. But there are more gradual, less visible changes that also contribute to the declining status of the US system o
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Luke Burgis 1 month ago

This article by @tylercowen on higher education is the best I’ve read in a long time:

A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is just a few clicks away--and argues that this myth is not just wrong, it's actively blocking innovation and distorting our ability to make the crucial next leap. Futurists insist that AI will soon eclips
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Luke Burgis 1 month ago

This turned out to be the best recommendation to the question I posed the other day about the best book written recently on AI. Thoroughly enjoying it.

A month after the riot, Jacob Chansley, the man widely known as the QAnon Shaman, wrote a letter from his jail cell in Virginia asking Americans to “be patient with me and other peaceful people who, like me, are having a very difficult time piecing together all that happened to us, around us, and by
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Luke Burgis 1 month ago

A fantastic essay by Alan Jacobs

Brillat-Savarin (1783-1833) made famous the aphorism, "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are." He believed that food defines a nation. (From Goodreads)
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Luke Burgis 1 month ago

This is a wonderful book

Globalization, we have been told, goes hand in hand with secularization. As commerce, profit, and technological improvement overtake older value systems, rituals and traditions fall away, and the sacred is assailed by the profane. Traditionalists may fight back, but they are fighting a rearguard bat
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Luke Burgis 1 month ago

“Men become gods in the eyes of each other” Great work by @g_shullenberger giving an overview of the work of RenĂ© Girard.

Almost every sector of the technology industry struggled in the fourth quarter of 2022. Cryptocurrency crashed; startups dematerialized; funding evaporated; stocks plummeted; even FAANG companies, which once could be relied on for their job security, experienced massive layoffs and hiring freezes. B
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Luke Burgis 2 months ago

Great piece Katherine

Here are Parts 1 & 2 of a series exploring potential truth about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Part 3 is available on The Martyr Made Substack, so if you aren’t tapped out on this topic by the end of two episodes, head over to martyrmade.substack.com and become a subscriber for just $5 p/month or $50
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Luke Burgis 2 months ago

The lamb chops help. Great episode by @martyrmade, but the story is so upsetting I need an outlet.

The Comedy of Desire: Four Variations and a Coda in Homage to RenĂ© Girard — Anthropoetics XXI, no. 2 Spring 2016
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Luke Burgis 2 months ago

Probably both. Reminds me of the third section of an excellent article @cribbenMerrill wrote imagining an author trying to reverse-engineer Girard’s theory to write a great novel. It seems as if a writer on the show made this unfortunate mistake.

Some thoughts on @lukeburgis post on linking 0 to 1 and Wanting.
"My hope is to bring the book into contact and conversation with other books and thinkers in order to uncover the many layers of meaning found within it." - Luke
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Luke Burgis 9 months ago

Wonderful thread, thanks @Jeremy_uncooked

This book is the student’s manual in English with a guide to pronunciation, instructions and information on key points to be noted in each chapter. This book is especially valuable for students working on their own or in homeschooling, though also useful for school or university students. (From Goo
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Luke Burgis 10 months ago

One of the best. how I learned Latin.

Are you an entrepreneur, manager, employee, or business student seeking to lead in a  people-centered way? The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship is an insightful, practical guide to how businesses can and should be run to be both virtuous and profitable.Art Ciocca orchestrated the creation of the l
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Luke Burgis 10 months ago

My good friend and colleague @AndreasWidmer has an excellent new book out today, The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship—more important than ever in a world of confusing corporate responsibilities and obscured anthropology. A call to business at its best.

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