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"I'm trying to accept the reality that ours is going to be a more oral culture." Ross Douthat on tylercowen

This is why we’re building Havelock_AI

The way you influence a large language model or a bunch of humans is not by writing persuasive prose, but by coining new words or phrases which are useful and also make it easier to think certain thoughts over others.

In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about why I'm such an evangelist of Walter Ong Thought. Why I think the Return To Orality is the biggest story of our time. And how we're completely rewiring the logic engine of the human brain.

I ran today's column through Havelock_AI. BTW this weekend I'm going to figure out how to put the code on Github, in case anyone has any interest in helping to make it good.

Two thoughts from Walter Ong "Learners are doers, not recipients." “There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.”

Jim O'Shaughnessy hell yea walter ong

new podcast — INFINITE CORNUCOPIA, ft. my favorite fallibilist Mills Baker we discuss the literacy crisis, LLMs and qualia, and David Deutsch (ofc) 0:00:32 is text dead? 0:26:00 the case for novels + incel lit 0:45:12 debating LLMs vs. human cognition 1:01:44 parenting for

Scott Raines I read a really fascinating essay this week on the return to an oral culture, citing the work of social theorist Walter Ong. we're moving closer to the world of Homer in some ways.

Havelock_AI a friend from Novi Pazar tells me Avdo has many living relatives. have been thinking of going to Novi Pazar and Bijelo Polje to interview them and see if Lord and Parry are part of family lore

Register early for our 2025 convention in Mexico City on our website at media-ecology.org/event-5752842 Early registration prices are good until March 15th, 2025.

The crushing weight of knowing you'll never drink rakija in a dirt-floored Yugoslav tavern while a one-stringed gusle wails ancient heroes into existence youtube.com/watch?v=UhBq_D…

⚡️FOUR FACTORS THAT ENDED THE REVOLT OF THE PUBLIC 1) The global demographic transition to digital, which caused the revolt of the public in the first place, is now complete. This demographic transition occured in two distinct waves: - 2000s-2014 - early digital users, mostly

BLOWING UP THE USMCA IN THE AGE OF ORALITY In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about Trump's oral intuitions, and how they help explain his willingness and comfort with ripping up a trading arrangement that he himself established.

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