Bookmarks 2025-08-08T18:29:27.059Z - Idea 💭💡🔥
by Owen Kibel
2 min read
Idea 💭💡🔥
- J.K. Rowling on X: "'What a woman means has changed over time' makes as little sense as 'what the sky means has changed over time.' No amount of fashionable jargon, pseudo-science or religious belief will alter the nature of women or the sky. You are not God. Reality exists independently of you."
- J.K. Rowling on X: "Being a woman isn't an essence, it's a material, provable fact. I'm not a female human being because society or history made me one, or because I picked the 'woman' category on some metaphysical spreadsheet. I'm a woman because I was born with the equipment to produce large https://t.co/e6LCQfzLAs
- John Burn-Murdoch on X: "NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵 https://t.co/cBAgrLWKi5
- Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out
- The Democratic Delusion National Review !
- Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web
- Switching Off For a Moment Lets Your Brain Do Something Wonderful : ScienceAlert !
J.K. Rowling is full of common sense. Is there a correlation between the intellectual contagion behind hysterical efforts to oppose her - and the hysterias accompanying doomerism in relation to AI development which supposedly cause certain bright students to drop out?