Selections from the Web:
Erik Hoel: AI Makes Animists Of Us All /// on what everyday AI “interpretability” ends up looking like.
Haley Nahman: Are You Baby? A Litmus Test /// on technology, social media, and cultures of avoidance.
Russ Cox: A Tour of the Acme Editor /// a video tour of the weird, wonderful Plan 9 editor.
Thomas Nagel: What is Rude? /// a review of two books on G.E.M Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch. Some mild J. L. Austin Gossip in here.
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
Marvin Minsky: Society Of Mind (1988). /// What if your brain were a Lisp Machine?
Journal Articles and Chapters:
A. Roger Ekirch: “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles,” The American Historical Review (2001) /// Probably the classic text on the history of segmented sleep.