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Derek Thompson

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Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today's newsletter: The many-headed hydra of risks facing AI today The hyperscalers are taking on hundreds of billions of dollars of debt to build a profit-challenged product whose global competition could compress margins, while the political backlash grows www.derekthompson.org/p/the-four-h...

The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse

The smartest reasons to worry about the state of AI in an age of intense volatility—and my best attempt to explain why each of those worries might be wrong.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗@charlescmann.bsky.social · last wk.

A side benefit of the fuss over the Odyssey movie is that people have been interviewing Homer translator Emily Wilson, who is unfailingly interesting on these matters. Her new talk with @dkthomp.bsky.social, who has the wit (all too rare among interviewers) to stay out of the way, is terrific.

What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern

Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' is an extraordinary, modern epic. Homer's Odyssey is an even more extraordinarily strange one.

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Matteo Wong@matteowong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Our fear of death motivates an all-consuming neuroticism about outrunning mortality, even when the price we pay is putting health optimization above everything else, including other people." One of many clear and insightful lines in a very clear and insightful essay

Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE CULT OF THE ENHANCED SELF The post-pandemic fitness craze, MAHA, the cultural rise of Nietzschean tech moguls, the dawn of GLP-1s & supplements, and fitness trackers have combined to create a new cultural norm that is (unhealthily) obsessed w/ health www.derekthompson.org/p/the-cult-o...

Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

America's health craze isn't so healthy. Diet, exercise, and discipline are virtues. Longer lives are good. But today's craze of health-maximization has an antisocial streak. At its extremes, it verges on a cult of self enhancement, which pulls us into ourselves and away from other people.

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