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![]() ![]() On his travels, he encounters professors and priests who are all after the book. The protagonist in the novel travels to Peru to seek a mysterious manuscript containing nine insights about life. The nine insights from the book are profound lessons in life for any time you pick it up, but perhaps even more so now during this pandemic. The book from 1993 was as impressive and insightful to me as ‘ The Alchemist ’ by Paulo Coelho. I’ve always wanted to read it and for two euros it was mine. At a second-hand book market in Ghent, mere weeks before the Dutch and Belgian lockdown, I found the book ‘ The Celestine Prophecy’ by James Redfield. I’ve always believed books find you at the right time. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.” – James Redfield ![]() ![]() The problem is in identifying your current questions. “You see, the problem in life isn’t in receiving answers. ![]() ![]() Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development, in Global Policy.Also German book (Suhrkamp, 2020) adaptation in Aeon The Vulnerable World Hypothesis, in Global Policy.Sharing the World with Digital Minds, w/ Carl Shulman, in edited volume (Oxford University Press, 2021).Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society, w/ Carl Shulman, working paper.New Yorker profile (now a bit obsolete), Bio, CV, Contact. Sign up for newsletter to receive (rare) updates.įor more on me, see e.g. ![]() ![]() Working on another paper with some colleagues that will focus on some technical challenges in detecting internal states of potential moral significance in large transformer models and other ML systems. Have also recently been doing some thinking on metaethics, and have released two papers on the ethics of (future) digital minds. Though sometimes I have the impression that the world is a conspiracy to distract us from what's important. Hunkering down to focus on completing a book project (not quite announcement-ready yet). ![]() ![]() ![]() Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. ![]() They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. ![]() A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. ![]() ![]() ![]() And “Smith” evokes both the forge and the everyman of our society. “Cordwainer” is an obsolete word for a maker of leather shoes. ![]() Perhaps his peculiar nom de plume reveals something of his approach. In Smith’s hands, science fiction became a sublime art in a way that should be the envy of many serious-minded fictioneers today. With such an unusual background, it is not surprising that the stories that flowed from his pen turned out to be something special. Perhaps his choice to write under a pseudonym reflected a desire to protect his professional reputation, but it also contributed to the mystery and mythos surrounding his work. He considered his most outstanding achievement to be a tactic employed during the Korean War, allowing Chinese soldiers to surrender without losing face and avoiding bloodshed. He also held a position with the CIA as an expert on psychological warfare. ![]() Science fiction was a genre that American academia often scoffed at at the time, and Linebarger taught Asiatic politics at Duke University. Along with The Quest of Three Worlds and a sprinkling of short stories that appeared from the 1940s to the ’60s, Norstrilia represents the output of one of the most original minds to ever contribute to the genre.Ĭordwainer Smith was the pen name chosen by Paul Linebarger. It only happened once, and we have taken pains that it will never happen again.” These words begin one of the most surreal science fiction novels of all time, Norstillia by Cordwainer Smith. There was a boy who bought the planet earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. ![]() ![]() It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. In the introduction to 'Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America', Candacy Taylor shares a story told to her by her stepfather, Ron Burford. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. This historical exploration of the Green Book offers "a fascinating sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, he has never been able to maintain a relationship, but he is convinced that in this “Age of Anything-Can-Happen,” he will someday find and wed Miss Salma R., and she will bear him numerous children. While on the road in his old gunmetal grey Chevy Cruze, he ruminates on how much he would have liked to marry and become a father. Although he has seen her only on television, he writes her love letters, which he signs “Quichotte.” ![]() ![]() When Ismail loses his job, he takes off on a cross-country journey in search of his idol, Miss Salma R., an Indian talk-show hostess and former Bollywood star. Ismail Smile, a traveling salesman for a pharmaceutical company, has spent endless hours in tawdry motel rooms watching mindless television “and suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result.” The principal manifestation of his lunacy is the inability to distinguish between truth and reality. ![]() ![]() We also get a satisfying reunion of Julian, Kirian, and Talon for a romping good fight plus more enigmatic Ash and his studly super powers. As usual, there is a tremendous amount of humor that often makes me laugh out loud as well as poignancy that brings tears to the eyes. We also get a hysterically funny view of Wolf's interactions with his nephew/Squire that make it worth the listen for those moments alone. ![]() The story puts a few head-twists on how we view Damons and gives us our first non-human female love interest-an Apollite. ![]() ![]() This story doubles back on the timeline and even recalls word for word the phone call between Wolf and Talon while he debated whether to finish off his coffee or the prey hhe is supposed to be hunting-Fabbio alert! It continues past the news of Zarek's fate and then carries us forward to give Wolf's story the proper finish. ![]() ![]() ![]() And things were even worse than Jake imagined. Jake found out that the Feds had lied to him about Delilah being a murderer as well as a bank robber, and they had lied about this being his last job for them-he was too valuable for them to let him go. But the last operation he was sent along to help with went completely wrong, and Delilah Jones, the woman the G-men were after, who just happened to be an old friend of Jake's in happier times, had a lot of magical muscle with her, too much muscle for the cops to handle, even with Jake's help.It got worse. He's free because he has a magical talent, being able to alter the force of gravity in himself and objects in his vicinity, and the Bureau of Investigation calls on him when they need his help in apprehending criminals with their own magical talents. ![]() Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a private eye-and an ex-con. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miryem quickly brings her family back from the brink of destitution, but word of her success spreads a little too far when it catches the ear of the otherworldly Staryk, fae-like creatures of ice straight from the nightmares of children. After Miryem takes over her father’s failing business, her family and neighbors are shocked at her efficient ruthlessness in collecting outstanding debts. ![]() Spinning Silver interweaves the narratives of three women – Miryem, the ambitious daughter of a money lender Wanda, a hard-working girl beset by her controlling father and Irina, the daughter of a local duke. Fans of Naomi Novik’s standalone novel Uprooted or her Temeraire series have been anxiously awaiting her newest novel, Spinning Silver, and I can confirm that it is more than worth the wait! As an FYI – because I was initially a little confused – although the cover of the book bears a similar design to Uprooted, Spinning Silver is not the continuation of Agnieszka’s story, though the story does have fairy tale origins, just like Uprooted. ![]() |