Joachim Baan
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Joachim Baan
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreAlex Tan • #032 Peeling Back
Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
We can see what late-hyper-digital-artificially-intelligent capitalism is doing to us
Kyle Chayka • IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu | The New Yorker
Can an AI be bored?
Emotion is a human cognitive function, and it would, therefore, be very difficult to simulate in an AI or AI-controlled robot; boredom may probably be the most difficult emotion to simulate at all. It may become possible to implement “happy” or “sad” emotions in silico, by making an AI or robot learn from happy and sad examples.... See more
Emotion is a human cognitive function, and it would, therefore, be very difficult to simulate in an AI or AI-controlled robot; boredom may probably be the most difficult emotion to simulate at all. It may become possible to implement “happy” or “sad” emotions in silico, by making an AI or robot learn from happy and sad examples.... See more
Izumi Uehara • The meaning of boredom: Properly managing childhood boredom could lead to more fulfilling lives
To the wrongs that need resistance,
to the rights that need assistance,
to the future in the distance,
give yourselves.
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Holly Herndon
nytimes.com
In the context of Dead Internet Theory, this trend is especially noticeable as more of the online content we interact with is not created by people but generated by AI bots, designed to fill our attention spans with easily consumable, automated material.
