Michael Lewis
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"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer...
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Welcome to "Mind Fucking AI," where I take the gloves off and go toe-to-toe with AI, hell-bent on proving my radical propulsion theory. This isn't just a book; it's a full-blown insurrection against the norms of science and technology. I'm not here to coddle your sensibilities; I'm here to shatter them.From the get-go, I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I don't care if you believe me or not; that's your problem. My mission? To drag an AI through the...
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We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place-compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy.
The authors present a comprehensive series...
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Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century...