WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE “There is no question but that the lexicographers favoured male over female sources, and this bias will undoubtedly have affected the nature of the language witnessed.” — Charlotte Brewer, Oxford lexicographer Jane Austen gave us...
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TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK “People developing it don’t really understand how it works. And we’re pouring billions, even trillions of dollars into that arms race.” — Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety researcher We’ve entered a peculiar era where the people...
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MONDAY — THE HUMAN CONDITION “Many ‘irrational’ preferences do not necessarily arise from people storing values relative to other values, but rather from the fact that people tend to repeat actions they once preferred in a particular context.” — Dr....
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