Amelia Desertsong
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Amelia Desertsong
The status signal is circular: you can afford to be selectively online because you have capital, and being selectively online signals you have capital. The rest of us are still grinding for algorithmic visibility because we don’t have another choice.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
AI can write faster than me now. It can code faster, think faster, create faster. But it can't feel the way my heart stops when I read the perfect sentence. It can't know why certain images haunt me for days. It can't understand why some ideas refuse to let go.
That's what I collect now. Not information. Not content. But moments of recognition.
... See more"AI can imitate outputs. It can predict patterns. It can accelerate execution. But it can’t carry moral weight. It can’t love. It can’t repent. It can’t take responsibility. It can’t look another human in the eye and choose courage over approval. It can’t suffer with someone. It can’t forgive. It can’t be faithful. And it can’t answer the question
... See moreCreativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach — how you look at things. Not everybody can be a painter — and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live. And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But
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Human cognitive limitations, feelings of intellectual inadequacy, and why AI’s lack of these limits is profoundly exciting
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Well, I don't know if you have this experience. I have this experience all the time. Well, two experiences I have all the time.
One is just like, I know I ought to be able to do this, but like, I just can't, like, it's going to take too long. You know, I want to write this thing, or I want to like, whatever, I want to have this theory on this
... See moreThink like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings.
Unfinished = fertile