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5 days ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
I’m on a train from a small village outside Marseilles (where I’ve been hiking), to grab a train from Marseilles to Paris, whereupon I’ll ride a Lime bike (with my backpack) to a friend’s apartment to switch out my hiking and camping gear for fancy work threads. I’ll then ride to Gare du Nord (with said backpack and fancy threads) to catch the Eurostar …
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1 week ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Elle Griffin
Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with recorded in an BnB in Marseilles after a 18km hike in The Callanques. My phone is sitting a top a toaster, propped up by a sugar canister. Ever professional…I’ve been following Elle’s work for a bit. At first because her utopian take on collapse challenged me when I first encountered it.
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1 week ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Josh Szeps
Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into the live video interview with Australian journalist, political satirist, Joe Rogan regular ! And thanks to for the (curious) questions!Josh and I don’t always agree on everything, but there is always mutual respect for the way we go about our ideas. I always feel heard.
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2 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
There is something of a type who gets excited about the Fermi paradox. They’re often the same type who froth about p(doom) figures and those apps that put all your hot takes into detailed digital visual maps. And they intersect heavily in the Venn Diagram of Humans with the exceedingly bright lone-rangers who find me on dating apps and who take to telling me “what you need to know is…” over what becomes a one-off glass of wine.
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2 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
In the comments section of a post from the other week on the Greek tradition of philotimo some of you shared acts of “love of honour”, or “grace without strings” you’d seen/experienced/performed. Good Gracious Grecian Gods, we need to see more evidence of it about the place. I’ve struggled the past few days (Trump v Elon spat; the fascism in the US; the …
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3 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies. - Walt WhitmanHere’s a theme to sit with and embrace now as a way of being that is just….aright thing to do…regardless of where the world winds up. I know many of you here are looking for such salves and ways, especially ones that can cover your Plan As and Plan Bs (and Cs and Ds)…We know efficiency doesn’t work.
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4 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
It’s been exactly 18 months since I last did one of these Sunday collations. (I’ve never promised that I’d be consistent!) It’s actually interesting to witness some of the tech bro stuff I was writing about back then and how mildly alarmed we were by it all. Sunday Reads (revisited): ChatGPT panic, Peter Thiel apocalypse posturing and Taylor-Travis cutenessFunnily, I’m writing this in the same bar that I reference in the post above.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Helen Lewis
She’s back!!! , the woman who Jordan Peterson said (all sookily) “hated me on first sight”, has written a new book about geniuses … and how the mythology around the concept has warped our understanding of creativity and value. In this chat we cover how it feeds into the exoneration of the tech bros. Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into our live video. Per the blurb on the book:“You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
Last week I referenced the viral AI 2027 forecast written by a group of the world’s leading technology researchers and developers. I’ve gone down something of a rabbit hole with the AGI juggernaut the past few weeks, in big part because of this forecast, which envisages a monumental “intelligence explosion” in the next two years. Two years is very very soon.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
Over on X, Sam Altman has confirmed for us a sticky moral point in the AI debate. A few weeks back someone had tweeted (X’d?) about the cost of including “please” and “thank you” in Large Language Model requests. The inferred question, I guess, was whether we should be dropping such niceties to make, you know, savings. The next day, Altman responded to the X enquiry: “Tens of millions of dollars”.