John Borthwick
@borthwick
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John Borthwick
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So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
The concept of efficiency — how much one can accomplish per unit of time (or per dollar, etc.) — requires a quantitative numerator as well as a denominator. It requires a metric. Therefore, it tells us nothing about results we cannot quantify or measure. When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while t... See more
➰ limitations to the efficiency paradigm ...
While you and I have lips and voices
Which are for kissing and to sing with
Who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch
Invents an instrument to measure Spring with?
He found Sculley’s newly built mansion ostentatious, with its floor-to-ceiling windows, but he admired the three hundred-pound custom-made oak doors that were so carefully hung and balanced that they swung open with the touch of a finger. “Steve was fascinated by that because he is, as I am, a perfectionist,” Sculley recalled. Thus began the somewh... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Thinking about how AI cleaves open the possibility space around any problem, finding patterns we dont see. And how human intelligence is different to machine intelligence ... examples of cleaving open the possibility space move 37 AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
➰ Quality is everything …
Two quotes from ZAMM on why:
'“he saw now that Quality was a cleavage term. What every intellectual analyst looks for. You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two—hip and square, classic and romantic, technologica
... See moreWe also now have a persuasive “so what?” These technologies have enabled a whole new user interface for computers: human language. Just like the graphical user interface made the personal computer accessible to millions of customers in the 1980s, so too have the new natural language interfaces made AI accessible to hundreds of millions of users wor... See more
Konstantine Buhler • AI and the Frontier Paradox
"You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency." Venkatesh Rao