Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.
Jonathan Shaw • Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
The Future and
Hardware is hard and
Pete Warden’s new thing. Crazy-fast translation. Found out about it from Om’s new thing called Crazy Stupid Tech.
Most AI researchers roll their eyes if you bring up the idea of consciousness. That’s for philosophers, not engineers, they say. Since no one has been able to define it, what’s the point in talking about it? I get this frustration. Few concepts are as elusive and seemingly circular as the idea of a subjective experience. Despite the definitional... See more
We must build AI for people; not to be a person
AI and AI AI Captain
All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
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AI and AI AI Captain
I feel this intensely and think about it all the time. Many people for whom I have tremendous respect, people I have been reading for many years, people who I look to to make sense of the world really do seem to dislike AI. All I can tell you is that for the last few years, I have been obsessively playing with it, building things with it and spending a lot of time trying to make sense of it. I can’t stop. It’s the exact same feeling and drive I had when I first installed Mosaic in the 90s. But this feels quite a bit different.
The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
A certain strand of technology might be accelerating, but culture is going nowhere in particular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pastiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.