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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go ViralA new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology May 28th The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words Rated Yesterday 3:05pm - sethherr
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Burning Man’s climate protesters have a pointBuilding a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet, the climate protesters said. #Burning Man #Culture #Environmentalism #Technology 2023-08-30 Vox Adam Clark Estes 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-30 - sethherr
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The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanityThe founders of Anthropic left OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. #Artificial Intelligence #Technology 2023-07-17 Vox Dylan Matthews 7,000 words Rated 2023-07-23 - elll
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The Computers Are Getting Better at WritingSteve Marche on Sudowrite, an application that harnesses the artificial-intelligence program GPT-3 to generate text and even mimic the literary style of writers such as Franz Kafka. #Artificial Intelligence #Literature #Technology #Writing 2021-04-30 The New Yorker Stephen Marche 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-26 - elll
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Our crazy farm subsidies, explainedThe US offers farm subsidies pretty heavily for some crops, but what began as a temporary measure gradually became more permanent. #Technology 2015-04-20 Grist Amelia Urry 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-15 - sethherr
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