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It has taken a long time to bring into being, but it has some excellent articles, some original new translations, along with interesting discussions of those translations.

#philsky

I am struck by how the disciplines have recreated two tendencies prominent in some ancient histories of Greek philosophy, such as Diogenes Laërtius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (3rd c. CE) and his sources in Hellenistic succession and chreia literature. 4/4

Another thing she explains is the importance of brief anecdotes (about famous scholars) that “make their point about disciplinary values more memorably than any full-dress biography could: like fables and jokes, they are short, punchy, and shorn of extraneous detail.” 3/

One thing she wants to explain is “why disciplines persist in narrating their histories in terms of bloodlines and lifelines” despite the dubiousness of these histories. 2/

Jake Beck!

Amazingly, the market approves of Google’s turn to AI. GOOGL is trading at more than 2x this year’s lowest price.

Yes, that’s a good way to express the worry I was to articulate. I find it tempting to wave off the cosmic question, and while I don’t think the human question *has* to implicate the cosmic one, I worry that a good answer to the human question might.

The agent who cares about cosmic meaning need not deny that there’s a separate question about human meaningfulness. They just don’t care about the human question, given the threat of the cosmic question.

But this seems to me more like one question feeling more important than the other, and not like two questions really being one.

I think that’s right. If you really want your life to be cosmically meaningful, human meaning won’t be enough.

Such a dreary job that would be.

I was thinking about picking up a copy of Aboutness. Should I buy it through her review, and to encourage her?

Maybe AI-approved?

This is awesome. Not only does she not actually engage with the contents of the books she reviews, but she does not actually engage with the music of the albums she reviews. How to Find the Cutest Books and Albums.

Making It Depicted