Happy Christmas!
I made you a link post of things you might find interesting on the internet. (Please don’t feel obliged to look at them!)
Lots of love, Katja oxo
(Picture: Christmas Eve, by Carl Larson, 1904-5)
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George Saunders, e.g. The Braindead Megaphone, and Tent City, USA
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Slatestarcodex archives, e.g. on meaning and the problem of evil and thinking under conformity pressure (these are incidentally all funny stories, but the site is mostly non-fiction)
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Test your ability to distinguish real people from AI generated faces (or to just see unreal people, look at thispersondoesnotexist.com)
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Julia Galef, probably via Rationally Speaking Podcast
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Robin Hanson: Politics isn’t about policy; The Great Filter—Are We Almost Past It?
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Politics and the English Language: I found the writing ironically uncompelling, but the idea interesting
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Xkcd, e.g.
Informative ones: Earth’s temperature over time, chart of what improvements are worth the time
Upvoted for the tomato sorting machine.