Books in Progress This Week

• Arthur Miller, The Crucible (Prep for seeing Jon Proctor Is The Villain) ✅
• Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword ✅
• Robin Sloan, Moonbound

Threes

Books in progress this week

• Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
• Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
• Leif Weatherby, Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

  Songs on rotation this week

• Cleo Reed, “Always the Horse, Never the Jockey”
• Buffalo Nichols, “Moses”
• Jim Legxacy, “‘06 wayne rooney”

  Bookmarks saved this week (I use Anybox)

• “Back to the Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events”
• “Gaslight-driven Development”
• Special issue of Philosophy and Digitality on “LLMs and The Patterns of Human Langauge Use”

Today Anthropic announced Claude for Education, which introduces “Learning Mode” (which, in Projects, tends to offer guidance rather than answers, has some common templates, and a few other tricks). It also includes whole-campus access to Claude.ai.