What I'm Reading:
1. Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to modern knowledge graphs, by Anne-Laure Le Cunff:
“Whichever model prevails in the knowledge management quest, the next logical step seems to be the metamodeling of thinking in maps—a model made of a new language, a new schema for the semantic data constituting our thought processes.”
2. Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy, by Nir Eyal and Dan Shipper:
“When most people talk about habits, what they’re saying is, ‘I want something that’s difficult to become effortless. I want the benefits but I don’t want it to be hard ... Well, I have news for you: some things are just hard. There’s no way of getting around it.”
3. The Bitter Lesson, by Rich Sutton:
“The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.”
4. The Beginning of Infinity (affiliate link), by David Deutsch:
“An entire political, moral, economic and intellectual culture – roughly what is now called ‘the West’ – grew around the values entailed by the quest for good explanations, such as tolerance of dissent, openness to change, distrust of dogmatism and authority, and the aspiration to progress both by individuals and for the culture as a whole.”
5. The Burden of Skepticism, by Carl Sagan:
“Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous. And that’s why there is a great reluctance to teach it in the schools. That’s why you don’t find a general fluency in skepticism in the media.”
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