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Machines + Society #12: Tools for our brains; Social sphere packing; Fox Hunts
Let's build better tools for our brains.
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IP theft; Fake Carbon Footprints; Renunciative Buddhism
"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,/ How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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Machines + Society #20: How to Grow a Musician; Focusing; Lithography
In which Kegan's stages are applied to a musical genius
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Machines + Society #18: Muscular Spirituality
Is everyone going to be enlightened soon?
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Machines + Society #19: Value Exploration; solving weight loss; futarchy
Towards a framework for systematic value discovery.
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Predicting Problems; Buddhism for Vampires; Homebrew Gene Therapy
"Within us all lies some particle of the dove, kneaded into our frame, along with the elements of the wolf and serpent"
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An explained hiatus; governance; song of storms
"I went out to a hazel wood because a fire was in my head"
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Machines + Society #8: Privacy in the Time of Corona; CARES; g0v
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Machines + Society #13: Stagnant questions; Inflamed Ladies; Reverse microscopy
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Machines + Society #16: Mass Sleeping; Musical arrhythmia; Mearsheimer
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Machines + Society #14: AI Governance; Anarchic communes; Adventure Time
A newsletter by Mako Shen
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Machines + Society #17: Rethinking labels; Pirahã people; Tigran I love you
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