Bradley Wargo
@bradleywargo
Catholic seeking to share and understand
Bradley Wargo
bradleywargo.com
This piece really opened my eyes to the need to evaluate technology in today’s workflow through a lens of helping humans consistently evolve. As we move from being able to automate and make the repetition easier (like we did with machines), we can now make the technology more creative inducing as we swing back to creative thoughts and time away from process optimization
In my experience, the most useful approaches to AI are:
- Ask clearly bounded questions, where you can easily inspect the results.
- Don’t let AI make decisions for you. Instead, challenge it to broaden your options.
- Take advantage of the fact that it doesn’t have feelings, and use its honesty to get useful feedback.
ChatGPT is dumber than it looks
the currently endorsed productivist approaches leave no space for disturbances and the possibility for us to react and adapt. Nor do they allow mutations and collaborations between living communities to take place.
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
This mimics our digital approach to siloed tools and their efficiency at the expense of crozz breeding and natural developments.
Embraced by countries with little to no arable land (like the Netherlands and Singapore) or by those with harsher environments (such as Qatar or Iceland), they are presented as a solution to food insecurity. At a time of global distress, repetitive droughts, rising sea levels, wars and diseases, industrial greenhouses promise never-ending physical ... See more
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
Food, Plants, and Physical Life
There is a lot of promise wrapped into a single technology. What if power goes out or our ability to sustain them stops?
This made sense in a pre-AI world, where tagging was the only way to ensure retrieval. But now that AI has given us the gift of semantic search—which surfaces information based on meaning and vibes rather than keywords—we no longer need
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
[the neurotic hamster in us … compulsively tagging.]
before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child” (Isaiah 66:7)…
Brant James Pitre • Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
How to Look at and Understand Great Art
Signed by Michelangelo to prevent rumors of another artist having done the work.
