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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Science makes models of things so we can understand how they work. Art makes models of things so we can understand how we work. - "What Art Does" by Brian Eno and Bette A
Artificial Intelligence and Humans In The Loop
Real thinking is to an AI like waves are to a lattidue line.
In an AI, there is genuinely no one home. It’s all model. No reality.
the map is not the territory; but neither is the model
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
I’ve found myself wanting to get out of the liminal place I’ve been floating in — wanting it to be done already, wanting to arrive in clarity, wanting to feel more certain or sure about what I’m supposed to be doing and how I should be doing it. Part of me feels like this pressure to “get there” comes from the false belief that there is anywhere... See more
Lisa Olivera • Ten things, part five
When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more
Be specific
Good protocols do not just treat solutions to problems as works-in-progress, with bugs and imperfections to be worked out over the long term, but the specifications of the problems as works-in-progress as well. Good protocols learn, grow, and mature in ways that catalyze thoughtful stewardship and sustained generativity. Bad protocols on the other
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
a Note is something to consider, a Post is something to inhabit. - visakan veerasamy
This quote from Elias Canetti, I think really solves what we're discussing: “A crowd exists as long as it has an unattainable goal. The image is acquired and there is nowhere else to go.” Setting off images allows crowds to condense their energy somewhere.