Alex Dobrenko

ou weren’t here when we had to stay up past midnight to even see a band we loved on MTV. You’re here now, wherever’s here to you. When you ask someone my age if they were into Nirvana, they claim of course they were, loved Nirvana. Same way they were all against the war in Iraq. You don’t understand that we never heard these bands when someone else... See more

This is also, I suspect, why OpenAI’s ChatGPT is causing the freakout that is inside of Silicon Valley. Yes, the AI is exciting, but the fact the platform has over 100 million monthly users, over a billion visitors a month, and an estimated two million that are paying to use it, seems like the bigger deal.

In “A Brief History of Creativity”, I argued that the story of creativity as we know it in the Western world is a story of divine power, a power that has been removed from some and granted unequally to others. Because of that, we should be suspicious, or at least not take it as a given, when certain people are called "creatives" and not others.... See more