Martin Puchner
@martin_puchner
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Recent books: Culture; Language of Thieves (both@Norton); The Written World (@randomhouse). Prof @Harvard. Custom GPTs.
Cambridge, MA
Joined December 2016
RT @NortonAnthology: "Chat is just another word for dialogue": In our latest Norton Learning Blog article, Harvard professor Martin Puchner….
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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RT @IAI_TV: From fashion to fantasy, entertainment to enterprise, we always imagine the new as a radical break from the past, but could thi….
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From fashion to fantasy, entertainment to enterprise, we seek the 'new' as the means to originality, change, and creativity. And for the most part, we imagine the new is always identifiable as a...
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RT @AnnaLeptikon: Francis Bacon recommended to be a bee, the middle ground between ant and spider:. "Those who have handled sciences have b….
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A few more chatbots are coming online, all based on requests. The first is Nietzsche. Unsurprisingly, he'll tell you when you're totally wrong. But that's what we want from a philosopher, right? Right???
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RT @PhiBetaKappa: @yalepress @thesaramarcus @Harvard_Press Congratulations to #PBKBookAwards finalist "Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave….
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RT @pmddomingos: Yuval Noah Harari is bringing the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence closer and closer by writing stupider and st….
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Sapiens made the author an intellectual phenomenon. But ten years on, his new book shows that “Big Ideas” can go stale
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I just read this and it's fabulous.
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My (free) GPTs are back online, new and improved. Chat with Socrates. Get life advice from Montaigne and learn leadership skills from Machiavelli (not the other way around).
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RT @DalrympleWill: An new video game adaptation of Journey to the West - itself based on 7thC monk Xuanzang's journey to Nalanda - has bee….
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The hugely popular Black Myth: Wukong has attracted some press for the wrong reasons.
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RT @kieraqm: AMEN. Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way) | Xaymaca Awoyungbo | The Guardian htt….
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Students should be told the whole story: understanding languages and cultures is a huge advantage in the workplace, says writer and film director Xaymaca Awoyungbo
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RT @JLFLitfest: A truly marvelous line-up! Martin Puchner, Ijeoma Oluo, Amitava Kumar, and more. JLF Seattle will be a transformative confl….
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On literature, from the Pope: .
vatican.va
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS ON THE ROLE OF LITERATURE IN FORMATION
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A great conversation: thank you all.
A major highlight from the week: I asked @anecdotal, @martin_puchner, @ShadiBartsch, @HenryEOliver, and @JimPethokoukis how the humanities should respond to AI. Their responses were eyeopening. @margrev linked it, as did @powerlineblog. (Thanks @tylercowen and @stevenfhayward!)
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RT @joeljmiller: How should the humanities respond to AI? I asked @anecdotal, @martin_puchner, @ShadiBartsch, Henry Oliver, and @JimPethoko….
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This is an important new book: I highly recommend it (and look forward to discussing it next week).
New England — come hear me speak at @HarvardBooks!. I'll be talking about THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS w @martin_puchner, Byron & Anita Wien Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Harvard. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Nothing to whet one’s appetite like a good old-fashioned trigger warning: . “The play contains violence and death, including drowning, decapitation and the death of children, the use of knives and stage blood, and strong language.”. (Shakespeare’s Richard III, at The Globe).
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My latest GPT: now you can get management advice directly from the person who invented it: Niccolo Machiavelli. (Use at your own risk, and please remember to make the world a better place . )
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