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"Don't ask this question.Read from the teleprompter.Don't swear. No emotions." And I felt it's not real.
Working people, people who would not normally have had the opportunities to have an education, formed grassroots organizations, reading groups, reading clubs. They gathered in the evenings. Theyread very serious books, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, historical works, Eastern classics, you name it. And they educated themselves. They liberated themselves in a certain way, I think,from the diminishment of their surroundings. I've read some of the history of those movements and I
not just for Greeks, not just for men? And it actually in this case, I think it's not so difficult. So I don't think he imagined a world where so many people were literate were able toread and to write. But now we know, and that's one of the reasons why I love these histories of working people and their intellectual movements. It's for people that worked full time, they workedwith their hands. They were the kind of people that Aristotle would have thought were good only for producing food or producing shelter. And he might have really thought of them as being means
wrong about very many things, but the idea that there was a smallest particulate form of matter is right. So it's kind of funny. You talk-- Youread the chemistry books, and they say that the idea of atoms goes back to Democritus, and, you know, he, his idea was that, like, there was a smallest atom ofoil, which was smooth, and it was smooth, of course, because, well, oil is smooth.
Persian was written in a very simple style of cuneiform, they deciphered it, they twigged it was Old Persian, they read it in Persian, and theyread the names Daray awush in Old Persian. And then suddenly, somebody realized that the other two columns were about the same length.- Brilliant. - What do you know? And the thing is, it said, "I am Darius the great king, king of the
University of Birmingham where I went to university, andread and write, to earning their living doing low-level reading and writing. That's to say, writing contracts, letters, everyday things for
and narrow that thing down. So, I mean that's part of the guy's background where he comes from. I beg people toread the pen uh it's called Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers and then also the doomsday machine. And by the way, his first book,Secrets, begins with his first day on the job. I was joking around earlier.
then 40 and then kids and then I start to, you know, change and maybe at some deeper level we are making a certain setread about in the Bibles?
Yeah. What were you forecasting in here? What are What are the key things that you said in here for people that haven'tread it? The high-level version of it is they automate the coding, then they automate the rest of the research process, then the pace of progressaccelerates dramatically. They get to superintelligence. They're working with the government, specifically the president, the executive branch naturally wants to control this
outside of your school to take photos of you and ask questions about your your father's affair. And the quote that Iread in GQ said this is a quote from you. If I didn't have that lesson, I don't know that I'd be tough. It taughtme not to trust anybody. You can never let your guard down. And I never really
refer to this as a literacy crisis, but I don't think that's exactly it. You know, we know that people can stillread, you know, relative to, um, you know, decades and centuries ago, like the literacy rate is quite high. Um, andwe might be reading more words than ever when you think about the number of like emails and text messages and social
That is sort of how communication technology works. You want to be seen, you want to be heard, you want to beread. And Google still is the kind of largest arbiter of how that works. Butif you remove the traffic or if you remove the ability to even pay for the domain that you're putting your website
Is the Symposium and this selection about um gender and sexuality the kind of thing that students would expect toread in a class like that?Absolutely. So, every week uh we read one classic text or couple pages from classic text. We read Aristotle one
And as I mentioned to you, I changed midway to a different technique just because I realized lately-- I mean, a little bit late than I should have-- that you actuallyread my book and that you know about this demonstration.I could see it also from-- I could see it also from the way that you chose your numbers.
And I found in these sounds myself.Read it. Honestly, I respect it because just recently I found out about Mr. Beast and I'm like, what?
And she was like, wait.Read the book first so you actually know why you're doing this.And so I read the book.
what you've referred to in this book as a such fascinating kind of like natural ingredients and I want to draw that out without actually giving the surprise of the book away I want people toread the book and enjoy it as much as I did so let me ask you a couple of questions so whataccording to you was sort of the craziest craziest ever new natural scent that was ever discovered or that is now like the talk of town right and and you think it's oh my God it's
read as-- is associated with." So he knew he was pulling a fast one over the readers or his fellow members of the Royal Society.
read books um I used to find that I wasn't connecting to those book to those books and I wasn't getting the story
Read the book. I do have some questions based on the book as well.
Read them and weep.
Read a good book.
Read my book. Read my book.
Read all the steps.
Read the ingredients. And before you start baking, make sure you have everything you need.
Read your book over the past month and I saw a lot of myself within your book.
Read the recipe a couple of times all the way through.
Read the script and tell me how you would direct it.
Read this cast of characters and tell me how you would cast it.
Read along with me, and your mind will just stir with-- you don't have to be a great writer.
read what it was like on the front line, then next time round, that would be another 1,000 people who would be on the doctors' side.
read before I got there.
Read about our ancestors.
read the 16 19 project and accept our arguments, you cannot accept the society that we have. You cannot morally except the society that we have. And, um, the
Read "Madame Bovary." Read "Anna Karenina." You learn more about people than any focus group will.
Read thousands of newspaper and magazine articles because there are companies now that digitize and their words searchable.
Read this one." He does that.
read of science and religion.
Read those first, they're so fun.
Read for many hours after coffee.
Read-- yeah. I have two questions.
Read it and start a conversation.
Read one section. And then come back to it.
read and seen so much?
read a book, like you read a really good book, and you look at your draft, and it's awful?
Read a lot of science fiction.
Read a bunch of books about things you might be interested in.
Read the book. Page 44-- it's all right there.
read the emails with a fresh eye.
Read this. Yeah, I was out.
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