Wisereads Vol. 61 — Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and More

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  • Author: [[hello@readwise.io (Readwise)]]
  • Full Title: Wisereads Vol. 61 — Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and More
  • Category:articles
  • Summary: This week, Readwise highlights Jules Verne’s classic novel, “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Dario Amodei discusses the potential of AI in research and biology, emphasizing its role as a virtual biologist. Additionally, marketing expert Yasmine Khosrowshahi shares tips on focusing on customer benefits rather than product features.
  • URL: https://wise.readwise.io/issues/wisereads-vol-61/

Highlights

  • “The only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our mind. It is not a realization of resignation, but rather of liberation. For if the mind can be ordered, if it can be made still in the midst of this restless life, then we have already discovered the key to a deeper kind of freedom.” (View Highlight)
  • our core hypothesis about AI progress is correct, then the right way to think of AI is not as a method of data analysis, but as a virtual biologist who performs all the tasks biologists do, including designing and running experiments in the real world ( (View Highlight)
  • we all die twice: when we die, and the last time anyone says our name.” (View Highlight)
  • “People don’t care about your product. They care about what your product can do for them (View Highlight)
  • “Selling prevention is hard. Selling a cure is easy.” (View Highlight)