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“If you know, you know”

[Chris 🇮🇹 @chris_co74]

Why AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers - Tristan Harris https://t.co/4X045Coave via @ChrisWillx @tristanharris

[Filip Demunsereeuw @demunsereeuw]

@PaulAnleitner Demoralization complete!

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Chinese PhD student should win awards for this interview with Christopher Nolan.

She was fantastic.

“We turn greatness into privileges and demand apologies from it. That’s a fact of Hollywood.”

[Alain Astruc @alainastruc]

Christopher Nolan had to go to China for us to finally have a pertinent interview. He answers honestly, and that honours him, allowing us, I think, to close the debate.

His attitude is mostly one of arrogance.

The gods. His ideas about how the Greeks viewed their gods are simplistic and typical of a kind of scientific arrogance that thinks religion was there simply to answer what science could not. Entirely wrong.

Xenia. His version of Zeus’s law is absolutely a vision informed by Christianity and the Golden Rule, as if the Greeks had no morality and were waiting for Christianity to educate them, again.

Guilt. Again, Nolan treats the absence of guilt and atonement as something needing to be fixed by Christianity or post-Christian liberal guilt, as if the Greeks were too stupid to have their own set of morals.

Greatness. Maybe the most frightening part. For him, in a democracy, the great man has to be humiliated in some way and atone for his greatness, at the risk of being shunned by others. An awful message for all people of great ability: do not be yourselves, act like NPCs.

Odysseus. He is not allowed to be Odysseus. He is not an exceptionally clever and complex human being, but the hero of a boomer film about American veterans, a decent dad who was dragged against his will into a dirty war.

Hollywood. Nolan clearly states that the audiovisual language of the world is that of Hollywood, something to which I am strongly opposed, obviously.

Critics. Again, Nolan takes people for idiots and thinks they criticise his films because they recognise tropes. People at this level of analysis are usually his own fans. The distinction he makes between professional and amateur critics shows clearly that he should get an email address and a cell phone and start realising that we are no longer in 1985.

Bronze Age collapse. I am not a specialist, but it is not difficult to see that he simply put the structure of Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb onto Odysseus and the Trojan Horse. It makes for a particularly sad film.

What he did was adapt the story beats and the characters into a pure Hollywood Nolan film.

He made an adaptation of The Odyssey that ultimately denies the universe of The Odyssey. He refuses to immerse us in the strangeness of that ancient world. Federico Fellini adapted the Satyricon as science fiction, searching for a cinematic equivalent to the strangeness of the ancient world.

Nolan chose to do the exact opposite. He forced Antiquity to conform to Hollywood tropes and to his own obsessions. The result is a completely Nolanian film: grey and beige, falsely complex, arrogant, sad, humourless, filled with empty display.

Thank you @ZhugeYY for this great questions.

[Chris 🇮🇹 @chris_co74]

Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he... https://t.co/PBxkABnz6p via @YouTube

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My life changed when I realized discipline was just the highest form of self-respect. It’s choosing what you want most over what you want now. It’s keeping your word. It’s an act of service to your future self.

[Chioma Amadi @Chioma__Amadi]

After I lost my second remote job, I learnt that overcommunicating is NOT the same as oversharing, and remote managers reward the first one heavily.

If you currently work remotely, here are some key differences you should take note of:

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If Nolan made LOTR😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.....

[Chris 🇮🇹 @chris_co74]

La mia Analisi dell'Odissea di Christopher Nolan: Divinità, Mitologia e ... https://t.co/pAuCrfgjHJ via @dailycogito

[Mastery Mindset @_masterymindset]

The psychology behind why the kindest people eventually cut everyone off !!

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

A cancer researcher just explained the consequences of spraying perfumes on your neck🙆🏼‍♂️🚨

[Chris 🇮🇹 @chris_co74]

@librarymindset You should NOT read the Art of War... in a day.

[Stuff Worth Seeing @StuffWorthSee]

Getting the perfect coffee is the goal!!!

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is.

Here’s the context and a suggestion.

Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the White House from meaningfully regulate AI.

About a month ago, sparked by Mythos, the White House realized that zero-regulation was an insane idea, and that some AI, sooner or later might pose massive risks.

What we have now is actually (in some ways) the worst of all possible worlds: a White House that de facto *is* regulating AI, but without transparency.

That leaves businesses and investors in doubt.

What we really need is a bipartisan committee—with transparent criteria and the judgements of independent scientists—and not just snap judgements from the White House.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

major new copyright lawsuit

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Meta is pausing an internal AI training program that monitored everything workers did on their computers down to their keystrokes after an internal leak made sensitive data accessible across the entire company.

A screenshot showed that the leak exposed employees' private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions.

https://t.co/FmTNoPqQro

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

AI is brain smoothing tech.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Eight reasons to slow down hyperscaling:
• What GenAI has already done to society
• What AI slop is doing to the internet
• What data center overbuild is likely to do the economy
• What data center overbuild is likely to do the environment
• What cyberattacks may do to the integrity of our data
• The software crisis that AI slop code is likely to lead to
• The complete lack of a plan for what to do about employment
• The complete lack of a solution to the alignment problem

[Jaydeep @_jaydeepkarale]

CEO after offering 3 pizzas to solve the problems created by 30000 layoffs.

[Chris 🇮🇹 @chris_co74]

“I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy “AI psychosis” and it’s impossible to have rational conversations about it with them.

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We look into what's happened the last two months, all of it self-inflicted: https://t.co/0jM0uMy01y