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My article on what is at stake in the Odyssey.
Civilization must be actively recovered through cunning and endurance. Remember what matters and read reality clearly. It is best to live in an expansive age; the second best is to battle all the way home.
Battling All the Way Home
Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means.
Read the new article by @StephenPiment (link below):
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Academics who teach in philosophy departments are not philosophers. They are more like sophists, and not the better ones. They are quite prone to nonsense.
Philosophy is supposed to be radical, and philosophers are supposed to push the envelope. But that doesn't mean commercial companies have to hire them to inform business practices.
Its worth noting that Anthropic hired Lederman in July.
freebeacon.com/america/suici…
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“If only the grownups would do something” is the thought of a child.
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Logically it is, but the perps are accustomed to talking about slavery by way of accusation, so they give that a pass.
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Deliberate mistranslation of Nietzsche’s term “master morality” in The Genealogy of Morals due to dislike of the idea.
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The New York Times nowhere acknowledges that the subjects in question are in the U.S. illegally.
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This is adoption at the rate I expected. It does not represent an objective “slowing” of anything, simply a deviation from unrealistic expectations.
Hearing from like 4 different people now that demand for AI is S curving extremely hard inside every single F500 company
Fable generation models have completely failed to increase willingness to pay / demand
This explains all the recent behavior
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The simplex algorithm for linear programming has been perfected. Very cool work.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.04197
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It is hilarious that “philosophy as a way of life” has been converted into yet another subfield of academic philosophy (called “PWL”).
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Consider the possibility that he read Nietzsche and Pindar and Plato and said “such and such things are true.” Stranger things have happened.
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Reader context for the win.
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
Community note
All recent large-scale cyberattacks have been performed by proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
No evidence that open-weight models present any additional cybersecurity risks.
nytimes.com/2026/09/23/tec…
anthropic.com/news/investiga…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI%E2…
opensource.org/blog/openness-…
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