Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
The WordPress.com Reader found me this story from 2023 on a site with almost no visitors. It imagines a utopia where AI does almost all the work except for some. Like Human Resources. Why is that spared? Check the story.
I don’t believe the current boom in generative AI will push us toward UBI, but it is important to imagine the threads of the future and see what we like and what we don’t so we can act accordingly.
I got to this book by pure randomness, using a random book finder. I had no clue it existed before the tool suggested it. My wish was to read something different and with more life in it. The last 2 books I finished were quite grim and had nearly identical serial killers. So here we are – by an act of luck, I got into this strange little world that was so wow.
The Temple of Gold has many beginnings, a little forgiveness, and fewer ends. It feels like a condensed version of the drama of an entire high school from the 1950s plus a spice of hopes, dreams, and aspirations. It is a mess of the kind that could happen and probably happens here and there, often in young people’s imagination or old people’s fears. The main character is not kind or even likable but despite that, the story is so well written and human that I went from start to finish in one try and enjoyed it.
Wikipedia says that when Goldman was in his early 20s, he got rejected by publishers for other work with “We can’t possibly publish this shit.” It’s quite an improvement to go from low-quality stories to world-class writing in less than 5 years. Overall, very happy with the randomizer, it could’ve suggested his prior work 😁
My next book will also not feature a serial killer.
This is a simple book and part of a series I hope to finish. It comes with promises – there will be races with fighter-jet fast homemade cars. Whatever happens in the race will be decided milliseconds before the finish line. There will be crashes, of course, with speeds that would make the F1 cars look like they don’t move.
This book will teach you nothing. Not even a grain of rice of usefulness. Not a grain of anything that could possibly happen. It’s fantastic, pure joy. 5/5
I like books. I like to read them, to watch them, and to slowly choose them in the bookstores. I also like my Goodreads archive with all the books I read in the last 10-12 years. I don’t like to keep them for too long as they take up a lot of space but otherwise, I love books.
One of my main issues with paper books is that there’s a commitment to read them once you buy them and not all books are worthy. This leads to getting stuck and lowers the joy of reading. Also, lowers my Goodreads score. So, after asking a couple of true readers about that and combining it with my own experience, here’s my short list of tips for how to read more:
I found them all. Next step is reading them.
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