A much needed addition to the holiday calendar!

Not sure exactly why your thread made me think of it - maybe because he's trying to think about what the path could be or at least what the infrastructure for the path needs to look like

Have you read Lifehouse by Adam Greenfield? He's sort of wrestling with this idea (perhaps a bit more cynically), but his solution is building what we need for when we inevitably need it, and he sees a lot of good in the little experiments

Yes, F likes adventure stories, battles and magic, so there's a bit more plot and character development!

I should say, we read simultaneously - I just like to be able to talk to him about the books, esp when they get a bit intense

Doesn't necessarily stop... I've been reading the Alex Rider books with F - we've read most of them (~14) since Christmas. That's more fun than the magic key though, if I'm honest

This was beautiful, thanks for sharing! I loved this bit: "hope can’t simply be given as one might pass a plate across a table... [one] must grow their own hope, which will take care and labour. It is a practice that requires attention: their attention, their labour"

Doesn't the ownership model matter? Wikipedia is decentralised and although that worried people in terms of accuracy, it allowed people to correct errors and its citation model is actually useful. But most GPT/LLM models are blackboxed and untransparent - as well as spewing a kind of garbage