Amelia Desertsong
@ameliacollects
Amelia Desertsong
Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational,... See more
Nicolas Michaelsen • The birth of the Wisdom Economy
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
Gravitas: “I care, and it’s important.” Sermons, manifestos.
Self-deprecation: “I care, but it’s not important.” Hobbies, fandoms, being nerdsniped, “merely” personal wishes.
Irreverence: “It’s important, but I don’t care.” Edgy jokes, shitposts, grifts, procrastination.
Disdain: “It’s not important and I don’t care.” Actual indifference/silence; hips... See more
Self-deprecation: “I care, but it’s not important.” Hobbies, fandoms, being nerdsniped, “merely” personal wishes.
Irreverence: “It’s important, but I don’t care.” Edgy jokes, shitposts, grifts, procrastination.
Disdain: “It’s not important and I don’t care.” Actual indifference/silence; hips... See more
Sarah Constantin • Sarah Constantin (@sarahconstantin)
That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals restless, distressed and even relocate
In the West it is seen as ‘woo’ to contemplate that energy/weather humans don’t *consciously* experience can affect our psychology, ... See more
Rivax.com
There is no person behind the language produced by a chatbot. It’s a dilution of billions of people, like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves.
Almost anything that we are able to direct sustained attention at will begin to loop on itself and bloom.
To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.
And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more
To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.
And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more