laurence pevsner
@Lpevs
partner, research @Lux_Capital, moynihan center fellow @CityCollegeNY, apology columnist for @mcsweeneys. writing some books, probably about you.
I wrote about chasing solar eclipses, the fallibility of memory, and the value of looking at things only our eyes can see for @NoemaMag noemamag.com/total-eclipse-…
Candidates for NYC office across the spectrum are talking abundance because our city deserves more: more jobs, more housing, more subways. I'm co-hosting a Tech for Abundance event with @abundance_ny, @yrechtman, and more to explore all this! Join us! lu.ma/1iibc13y?tk=PQ…
From @Lpevs: We can't train AI to give us what we want until we know what it is, exactly, we want. And that's far from clear. riskgaming.com/p/ais-cigarett…
Imagine a butler whose sole purpose is to supply you with whatever you desire. He studies your dopamine output...and constantly supplies you with cigarettes. I wrote about why AI faces the same problem as social media: riskgaming.com/p/ais-cigarett…
NYC subway stations are full of vacant spaces, so they’re started letting artists use them. Now we have Dinosaur Bodega
HAPPENING NOW!! Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs not found anywhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs without any thought or debate.
Are they gonna whack him for this statement like they did Sabalenka? Of course not
After his loss to Jarry at Wimbledon, Holger Rune says he would beat him 9 out of 10 times in normal conditions: "In normal conditions, I'd beat him nine times out of ten, with all due respect to Nicolás Jarry. Obviously, I didn't have it easy today with my knee, but yes, it…
As everyone analyzes Zohran's win to death, abundance dems need to dissect what went wrong with Zellnor's campaign. I say this as a fan! He had a 'memetic' policy (1 MILLION homes) A smart, charismatic Afro-Latino die-hard Knicks fan who took it to Cuomo. Why the flop?
Alistair is one of the most thoughtful people I've met. That he would be detained, humiliated, and deported by my government is an embarrassment to us all. You don't have to agree with him (which I do) or be a free speech absolutist (which I am) to think this wrong and cruel.
When the writer @alistairkitchen was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told him, “explicitly and proudly,” why he’d been pulled out of the customs line. nyer.cm/kVMUIUB
“Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle, offering daily testimony to our ability to overcome the worst impulses of human nature and live together in something that reasonably approximates harmony.”
Lots of chatter in and around the NYC mayoral race about how broken NYC is. My two cents: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/is-ne…