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Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
- “More” Is not Necessarily a Market Advantage
Here is a problem we do not currently have: There aren’t enough books getting published.
In fact, there’s far more books being published than there are people to buy and read them. Mr. 97 Books in 9 Months is working under the theory that more hooks in the water makes for the better chance at
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sari added 1y ago
A great guitar solo is not about how fast you can play, or your degree of technical skill. It comes from a deeper place.
Now, one could point out that Prince didn’t spend a lot of time on that solo. He just stepped up and killed it in the moment, but this ignores the innumerable hours of purposeful practice Prince put into becoming Prince, the kind
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sari added 1y ago
- I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
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Justin Reidy added 19d ago
- I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
from Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
Justin Reidy added 19d ago
- I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
from Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
Justin Reidy added 19d ago
- I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
from Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
Justin Reidy added 19d ago
- But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See morefrom Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
Justin Reidy added 19d ago
- For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those barriers and climbing them is the work of creativity. The goal isn’t to become a genius. It’s to do the work.
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Justin Reidy added 19d ago
What is upsetting about so much of the commentary and hype around ChatGPT is that it ignores the fact of writing and reading as experiences . To some, as long as ChatGPT generates content that is plausible, passing a (very) surface-level muster, we should be impressed and allow it to substitute for the human-produced text.
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sari added 1y ago