Putting it Down: Reclaiming My Attention and Intention From Twitter
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How two unexpected encounters led me to prioritize presence over the feeds.
“There's a pretty large chance that we're not gonna make it as humans.There won't be any humans on the planet, in a not-too-distant future, and that makes me very sad. We just had a little baby and I keep asking, how old is he even gonna get? I said to my wife recently, it feels a little bit like I was just diagnosed with some sort of cancer, which has some risk of dying from and some risk of surviving. Except this is a kind of cancer which can kill all of humanity.” These somber words, spoken by Max Tegmark, a prominent author and machine learning researcher at MIT, felt like a punch to…
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