Brandy Lawson

chipping away at all the chaos, uncertainty, and mystery, tuning into weird signals, making non-obvious and expansive connections across a multitude of domains. It’s about embracing a slower sense of reflection, until a path forward begins to illuminate itself. A vision of a new potential future that feels vastly different than our current reality.... See more

The early internet felt like sipping an IPA with friends; the late internet feels like taking furtive shots of Southern Comfort to keep the shakes at bay.

our own interests often make it next to impossible to learn anything true about others.

rest itself becomes an act of rebellion. If AI gives us near-limitless productive capacity, the truly radical act might be to not use it at all. By setting realistic targets for ourselves, and putting up boundaries, we can slow the erosion of our humanity.

Similarly, AI creates nigh-infinite consumption potential. OpenAI 's Sloptok can generate

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I think back to really early technologies, thousands of years ago. We discovered fire and invented use cases for it. Some of those use cases burned down London, and some just kept families warm. Fire itself is pretty neutral. We invented the wheel. We did really cool things with the wheel, but the wheel also enabled mass warfare.

It’s what we do... See more

When it comes to AI, I tend to see it as a tool. It can be a tool for great things or really crummy things. It can be a tool for cool people and terrible people. It can be used ethically or very unethically. But it’s very much a tool in the same sense that everything else is a tool.

What we do with the things we invent, with the technology we... See more

Karpathy believes the next era is less about artificial intelligence replacing people and more about augmented intelligence: AI as a cognitive power tool . Today’s models, he says, are closer to “compressed human knowledge we can remix,” like a supercharged Wikipedia, rather than autonomous workers.