An essay by Pierre Vandenberghe
Why do we collect things?
Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Brodsky on How to Develop Your Taste in Reading
“You stand to lose nothing; what you may gain are new associative chains.”
Marx et l’histoire de la nature
À propos de : Frédéric Monferrand, La nature du capital. Politique et ontologie chez le jeune Marx, Éditions Amsterdam
annotations: Le nouvel accord commercial de l'empereur
traduction française du billet de blog "The emperor’s new trade deal" de Paul Krugman
Meditations on Machinic Desire
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1993 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
LLMs and self-referentiality
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…
Expecting researcher taste and judgement to become increasingly valuable (this is from Anthropic's Opus 5.5 system card) anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5-system-card
attention economy and media critique
literacy
Research taste
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
neilpostman.org
AI Is a Waste of Time
This life gives you nothing
Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Do Not Research | Substack
The End of Reading Is Here
“The End of Reading Is Here” - The Ringer
TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts
Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
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