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QC @QiaochuYuan · Aug 4 in grad school i used to compulsively download interesting-sounding textbooks from libgen and sort them by subject in calibre. read almost none of them. it flattens the incentive landscape in a weird way to have invisible digital access to everything. very unnatural. the human animal yearns to come across a book organically by combing through the shelves of a library or bookstore and being struck by the physicality of its cover like our ancestors foraging through the bush for delicious treats august @regularaugust · Aug 4 We're in the golden age of being able to watch/read/listen to anything you want and some of you let algorithms decide for you
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Tweet by Qiaochu Yuan reflecting on compulsively hoarding textbooks from libgen in grad school without reading them, framing unlimited digital access as flattening the incentive landscape versus the organic discovery of physical browsing; quote-tweeting a reply from august about algorithmic curation in a golden age of access.