
#153 Beyond Mimetic Desires - Luke Burgis on the temptations of conformity, contemplating life in Starbucks, thick desires and thin desires, letting go of control, the importance of play, learning from different work cultures, his stay in Rome and becoming a father
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The Three Cities Problem
I love your idea of the three-city problem it's such a good remix of thethree-body problem which is that we have Rome or no Athens, Jerusalem and Silicon Valley. I feel most whole when I'm sort of finding a way to live at the intersection with all of them so this is fundamentally one of the big problems over time. All of the big debates about AI are happening without any involvement of Jerusalem whatsoever and Jerusalem is the is can propose answers for the teleology in the end.
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