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Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
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This Book Does Not Exist
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This Book Does Not Exist 2: New Ghosts To Chase (Part I)
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| This is sort of two books in one, a chronicle of behind the scenes corporate drama at OpenAI and a more expansive breakdown of the technology's colonialist practices, exploiting resources and people for advancement and profit under the guise of a mis ...more | |
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| Is it still worth writing and thinking about the internet as if it's a curiosity? I was surprised to ask this question while reading these essays. Those of us who grew up both with and without the internet have been intoxicated with the impact of dig ...more | |
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| A "fun" read mostly full of info we already knew, well-organized. The behind the scenes machinations that led to Biden dropping out are the most revealing, despite likely mythologizing from Schumer and Pelosi as sources. It remains striking how quick ...more | |
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I picked this up because I heard it was being passed around Anthropic, with the parallels between building artificial superintelligence and inventing the atomic bomb. You can see the draw. For one, some scientists thought the atomic bomb could never ...more |
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| Call it a companion piece to Lunar Park. Is it a soapy teen serial killer drama? Sure. Is it about the propensity for writers to be paranoid and see the worst in everything cause our brains have been reengineered for the drama, man? Also, yes. I read ...more | |
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| Vibes based reading, whether that’s obnoxious or not I don’t know. Putting these people in space without much of a mission does a trick — they become God-like observers with moments of profundity in the prose, dictated by positioning. These people ca ...more | |
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| Murakami is always a pleasure to read, even if a story hits less hard, like the Kafka tribute here ("Samsa In Love"). A collection of stories about the unknown gaps in relationships; it isn't an accident that the title story is about a man recollecti ...more | |
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| Bursting with crazy anecdotes, including a shark attack that nearly killed Wynn-Williams when she was a girl and various "adventures" in developing countries; plus alleged hypocrisy everywhere. Yes, the book is gossipy and sensational, and yes it's a ...more | |
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“I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”
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“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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