“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week, or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• A preview of the upcoming Antikytera Journal. I love the entries “What is Life?”
• Venkat has an awesome essay “We Are the Robots” on evolving human self-conceptions to machines
• What fully automated firms will look like by Dwarkesh Patel

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-175