Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
amazon.com
There’s a line in the Oedipus Tyrannus which I translated, where Tiresias the prophet says “Damn, damn. How terrible it is to understand where understanding is useless.” Andrew: How terrible it is to have signal anxiety when the signal is useless?
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The Power of Positive Thinking
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
A cathedral is something we want to make perfect — intricately carve it over time. To make a cathedral, we lock ourselves away until the work is just right, then pull back the curtain to show the world what we’ve been working on. The dream of the cathedral is that after working in isolation, the world will celebrate the work and see us in whatever ... See more