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The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
- Just as factory owners of the 19th century dismissed the skills of their workers in favor of profit and productivity, so do the tech leaders of today dismiss human craft in favor of what they believe is “good enough” productivity. It’s telling that in the development of AI, tech companies often use the term “ median human ” to describe the aspirati... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
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Rare AI project that helps make creative works (high literature) accessible / reimagine the way books can be enjoyed (from a solitary, passive experience of becoming list in the fictional world of a book → having a reading buddy to collaborate with in digesting and making the books personally relevant)
Rare AI project that helps develop human creativity, on the prerequisite that the reader actively engages with the LLM through “marginilia” the way book lovers scribble books with notes.
- A less cynical way to think about the postmodern tech revolution is that it hasn’t completely subsumed the real, brilliant, chaotic world, but merely emphasized it as vital and precious. Artificial intelligence, in my view, continues this tradition. The only singularity it can truly achieve is one that understands humanity at its most inhuman (and ... See more
from #138: Do you pass the Turing test? by Haley Nahman
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