Tagged philosophy
4 essays
- Bullshit jobs and the missing 15-hour week Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week by 2000. The technology arrived; the leisure didn't. The gap is filled with work that even the people doing it suspect is pointless.
- Happiness is a verb Aristotle's eudaimonia is not a state you arrive at. It's an activity you perform. That distinction changes how you should spend a life.
- The intelligence illusion AI keeps hitting milestones that used to sound terrifying, and they keep landing as boring. That reaction says something specific about what intelligence actually is.
- AI welfare: foresight or premature? Anthropic hired an AI-welfare researcher. The question is real, the uncertainty is genuine, and the honest position sits between dismissal and panic.