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We can all use Google Earth to virtually travel anywhere in the world—but when we want to see the Colosseum, we still get on plane. We still scream “REPRESENTATIVE” on the phone with Walgreens to be connected to an actual person. We abandoned the Zoom birthday party as soon as we were safely able. Humanity wins every time.
Kate Lindsay • I don’t care what the AI wrote
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to... See more
Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense
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