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This will change in the future, but if we are evidence based, the data so far is that the real harms of AI are almost nil, while the imagined harms ar
Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them
Upper-case, disruptive Creativity discovers or creates new areas to be creative in. It alters the landscape. Most everyday base creativity is filling
But every now and then an upper-case, disruptive jump occurs, creating a whole new genre, a new territory, or a new way to improve. Instead of increme
Essay Architecture is about the formal analysis of a piece. It’s not about a personal, cultural, or moral analysis of a piece, but, it does suggest
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead,
Whether you are neurodivergent, ADHD, have a mood disorder, chronic pain, the list goes on - how much access we have to our relationship with overwhe
A final note on the energy of the zoom room : This could be a small group, it could be a huge group, your ex might be there or your old neighbor. The
Chatting with AIs has already replaced a lot of brainstorming and mindmapping in my notebook for me. The evolution feels much sharper and more dramati
Becker is a fine chronicler and a valuable historian. He traces the roots of transhumanism — a movement advocating the use of technology to enhance hu
Banning billionaires would thus be an indirect fix — the more enduring solution lies in reformulating how digital networks are shaping society.
In the famous Turing test, a human judge determines whether a machine and a person can be told apart on the basis of how they communicate. If the mach
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”― Simone Weil
I did not used to be a person who asked the universe questions. I used to be a person who lived in a large and light-filled apartment. That person was
Yet, even without the Deep State conspiracy bait, there’s a sense of fact blurring into fiction, where the rational and technoscientific paradigms dis
Where claiming to see things once got you charged as crazy, fake images have are coming to form our collective folklore.
There’s more than 19,000 of you reading this right now; if 1,010 of you can support Deez Links via a paid subscription, I could literally pay for rent
Greetings from Read Max HQ, and welcome to our weekly roundup column. This week’s is the year-end READ MAX AWARDS EDITION, featuring previous selectio
This is different from generative AI, though, which uses massive training models to infer what it should spit out. Eno is crafted through 30 hours of
How artificial intelligence can make board games better It can iron out glitches in the rules before they go on the market
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Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by ano
It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities,
Mysticism is not primarily a theoretical issue. It is not just a question of an intellectual belief in the existence of God as some kind of metaphysic
“A gardener is not someone who grows flowers but one who cultivates the soil. You need to delve into the ground’s organic underworld to appreciate the
Every stream, every road, if followed persistently and meticulously to its end, leads nowhere at all.
All creation is defiance, what came before was created, you must defy it to make something new, and then you must defy yourself to make something new
Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity? I definitely believe that physical spac
“It’s not the eye. It’s my ear. I hear a great story and do my best to find it in their face.”
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things: everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are g
Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”
My best thoughts – the ones that make the most difference in my life – are rarely the byproduct of thought.A-ha moments. Epiphanies. Inspirational ins
Your next great ride is building in a yet unseeable swell. And when it does suddenly make its appearance, you’ve got to paddle like Hell to catch it.
There are many reasons for this shame. But the biggest one, I believe, is that love songs remind us of our vulnerability—especially sad love songs. Th
A pandemic beacon of hope
The joy is despairing. God can be a lot.
“A gardener is not someone who grows flowers but one who cultivates the soil. You need to delve into the ground’s organic underworld to appreciate the
To support our practice, we might set up a daily schedule, where we engage in particular rituals at specific times every day or week.
RITUAL Our problem isn’t just that we are in the habit of shirking important ideas. We are also prone to forget them immediately even if we have in th
Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. That’s at the core of language, math, music, and even ritua
Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this r
There’s something fascinating about how people cling to structure in ways they don’t always recognize. We create arbitrary rhythms and rely on rituals
The wonder of public libraries was not lost on Jack Kerouac, who wrote gorgeously about the NYPL in his journals—which, incidentally, I read in the NY
I started my days toasting bagels, checking Instagram, scrolling Notes, answering emails & reading news...trying to situate myself in the constellatio
Any skill or attribute you claim makes you unique—”I’m really funny”, “I’m good at shining shoes”, “I’m an attentive lover”—you can always find someon
It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.
Excerpt from a 1976 interview of Anaïs Nin by Jeffrey Bailey of New Orleans Review:NORWe seem now to be swept by a tide of nostalgia, a series of tide
I continued to write, elaborating on why that excited me, which led me to my first surprise. Those friends are some of my best friends from college. I
Humans were not meant to have this many passwords
So here they are, my personal rules for blogging. Three posts a week, more or less. One idea per post. If I find myself launching into another sectio
a great new idea that might change everything!
Here’s what’s ahead in this edition: An August of ideas: my California origin story The slow lift: a discovery Links and recommendations: not t
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When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we
Building in public:-Creates a narrative that an audience can follow get behind-Builds trust: both internally (at the company) and externally (to an a
What does this “building in public” phenomenon actually look like in action? For both Allred and Domm, it looked like vulnerability and authenticity.
t is by now a familiar, even banal reality that AIs can suss out the ineffable essence of collections of artwork. The Rembrandtiness of Rembrandt, the
So: GPT-3 is incredibly powerful, but it’s only as good as its training data. And GPT-3 achieves its power through the vastness of its training data-s
Software tools and courses can aid intellectual advancement and productivity at certain margins, for some people, but we should be more explicit about
This is a personal contact page for me, Vincent Gallo. As it is personal, I would like to say a few things about this contact address. Do not send me
I’ve chosen Los Angeles. I’ve fallen in love with this city. I’m surrounded by friends who have settled down here, who have chosen to build lives here
If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. ... And you can't lose your capacity for astonishment. It
I stopped going to class not long afterward, and I never went back. Partly because of that incident, and also because the stories and essays I turned
One of the unexpected and wonderful outcomes of using a pen plotter is that no two pieces of artwork are ever the same. The pen may draw the exact sam
Instead of discussing whether the internet is good or bad, I suggest we start by asking: do you want to show me your internet?
That's the thing with the internet. It is not a singular place: the internet is made up by many internets. Some are connected, and some are not. This
»When I share websites I’ve made, people often respond with comments like “I wish the web were like this.” These reactions confuse me: I just made thi
You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it
Look at how the writers you love are doing things, and then copy them. I’m such a believer in copying. When I was teaching writing, I used to say: “Le
Lately, when I’m stuck on a piece, I will print everything I’ve written and re-read it with a pair of scissors in hand. As I go, I will cut out the pi
So I’ll just go ahead and explain my current situation for my own selfish purposes. To push myself to be completely (and awkwardly) vulnerable to a bl
Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not deso
Your next great ride is building in a yet unseeable swell. And when it does suddenly make its appearance, you’ve got to paddle like Hell to catch it.
I learned this formula for success from Charlie Munger: 1. Don’t sell stuff you don’t want to buy. 2. Don’t work for people you don’t want to become.
There are people who never become openly enraged at dinner parties but I am probably not interested in knowing them. I love telling people stories abo
t’s said to be quite powerful. I won’t pretend to know how it works—my understanding is that they don’t know either, which is a clever alibi. I hear t
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
My best thoughts – the ones that make the most difference in my life – are rarely the byproduct of thought.A-ha moments. Epiphanies. Inspirational ins
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer. Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring
In the fall of 2017, July started to feel a second novel coming on. This time, though, she wanted to do things differently, to embrace the mystery of
At the heart of the Review is the writing, which is always notably strong and impressively varied. How do you pull together all the excerpts, intervie
Look at how the writers you love are doing things, and then copy them. I’m such a believer in copying. When I was teaching writing, I used to say: “Le
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer. Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring
Time travel is a difficult thing for a typical filmgoer to wrap their head around all in one go, and Back To The Future's model is far from the simple
A third-order story recognises the greater, more valuable, more actual truth: that every seemingly minor thing you do on every day absolutely definite