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Soft Power

Ashley Zhang

Investigating what it means to a live full, free, and flourishing life in an age of intelligent machines

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Alchemy of a Soul

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I wrote a piece for on the question of what human life is for in a world of increasingly capable machines. Here’s a snippet:

Increasingly advanced AI is widely considered a threat to our humanity, but it merely reveals that we’v...

3 months ago
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Burning Alone

I survived my first Burning Man: a week of dust and rainstorms, of loneliness and communion, of camaraderie and depravity; a week both clarifying and disorienting, brutal and beautiful; a week I am grateful to have experienced and glad to h...

8 months ago
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Building better handles

Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662

Growing up, I felt that I had little power over my life. I was told that things were the way they were because someone older and more powerful had decided so; that I could not qu...

10 months ago
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Aching muscles, aching minds

Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers, 1875

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam, and in the wall and house a...

a year ago
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What resists measure

ICYMI: This blog was formerly called Letters from a Luftmensch. Now it’s Soft Power. Here’s why.

A few months into dating my boyfriend, I told him that I do not wish to be loved for being good, but for being me. I couldn’t quite articulat...

a year ago
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