fw: the Insanity Artist
Ro.bert
here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
fiery stuff I've been ingesting
The closest we have to a Theory of Everything
Watch Google Reveal Multisearch Tech & Google I/O ‘22 in Under 12 Minutes
Move fast: perfection is for losers
Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast
New by Nick Bostrom & Carl Shulman Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society — moral status and political rights, to begin to (tentatively) stake out a position. I think we need progress in this area in order to develop a suitable modus vivendi—and time’s a-tickin’…
Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S.
A 2015 Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Bionic Reading is the new reading + a browser extension
Superman game in Unreal Engine 5
The Insanity Artist
You can see the Andromeda Galaxy through a camera
Record Jet Suit Mountain Ascent at 3100 ft in 3 min 30 seconds
The transcendental deduction of Integrated Information Theory: connecting the axioms, postulates, and identity through categories
Tools & Craft Podcast: Andy Matuschak
World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert
How did the Vikings keep themselves healthy?
One year of piano progress (as a 40-year-old beginner)
tweets for thoughts
YouTube archives
Short attention span is an underrated skill
war materials 🇺🇦
Where once the main sources of wealth were material assets such as gold mines, wheat fields and oil wells, today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can seize oil fields by force, you cannot acquire knowledge that way. The profitability of conquest has declined as a result.
Twenty Years of Putin Playing the West in 3 Minutes
Life in Russia Under Sanctions: Half-Empty Malls and Food Prices
Life In Russia Under Sanctions x2: Empty Stores, Rising Prices, Personal Tragedy
🇺🇦 You can donate to support the people in Ukraine.
All funds will be used to help those in need, affected by armed conflict, blood collection, mobilization of volunteers and resources, and emergency activities.
Disclaimer: There is no such thing as unbiased news. You can call it “less biased news”. There are numerous other biases that can influence news reporting too.
Overt political bias is probably the least concerning aspect of a democracy because it is simple to identify and weigh.
The more concerning biases in news reporting today are those that are more subtle, such as financial incentives and self-censorship of topics. Many topics are simply not covered, and the mainstream media does not question why.
Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) Telegram group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful —
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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