Humans are Creative
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Humans are Creative
In a computer model of creativity there should be junk lying around that your creative processes can bump into, noises that your creative processes can’t help overhearing. The spontaneous intrusion of that little noise from the next room may tweak what those processes are doing in a way that is serendipitous, or in a way that is destructive, but ei
... See moreDaniel C. Dennett • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Couple that with the complexity, flexibility, and revisability of human value systems and moral codes—and you have a species whose behavioral output is the product of multiple axes of wild variability.
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Why don’t they just…fix social-choice theory by including creative processes such as explanation and persuasion in its mathematical model of decision-making? Because it is not known how to model a creative process. Such a model would be a creative process: an AI.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Being randomly jittered, thrown out of the frame and focused on a larger scale, provides a way to leave what might be locally good and get back to the pursuit of what might be globally optimal. And you don’t need to be Brian Eno to add a little random stimulation to your life. Wikipedia, for instance, offers a “Random article” link, and Tom has bee
... See moreBrian Christian • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
I believe there are two plausible scenarios for the future of knowledge work. There’s one in which as machines become more human-like in their capabilities, we paradoxically become more machine-like in our pursuit of productivity, focused on efficiency and keeping busy above all else. But there’s another where we lean into ways of working that are ... See more