Counter-Tech
Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
If you submitted such work as part of an introductory statistics course, the professor would likely ask you to come to his office hours. And yet it became official policy in cities the world over.
M. Nolan Gray • The Prophet of Parking
The computer scientist François Chollet has proposed the following distinction: skill is how well you perform at a task, while intelligence is how efficiently you gain new skills.
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
This is why I respect people who easily pick up new board games
If the Amish approach to technology is radical in its application, it recognizes something plain and true: Although technology does not have values of its own, its adoption can create values, even in the absence of a coordinated effort.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
We are entering an era where someone might use a large language model to generate a document out of a bulleted list, and send it to a person who will use a large language model to condense that document into a bulleted list. Can anyone seriously argue that this is an improvement?
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Broken telephone, but it's LLM
How to be a -10x Engineer
+10x engineers may be mythical, but -10x engineers exist.
To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week. Combine the following strategies:
Nullify the output of 10 engineers.
Change requirements as far into development as possible. To avoid blame, obfuscate requirements from the start.
Create 400... See more
+10x engineers may be mythical, but -10x engineers exist.
To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week. Combine the following strategies:
Nullify the output of 10 engineers.
Change requirements as far into development as possible. To avoid blame, obfuscate requirements from the start.
Create 400... See more
How to be a -10x Engineer
Let me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
They want you to return to work, to their simulation of happiness and community, because they’re afraid that if you don’t you might remember that there was a time when you were free.
How to drink from garden hoses
Listen, I would just be some random dude in India if I swapped places with some of my cousins, so I'm going to choose to take that personally and point out that using the word AI as some roundabout way to sell the labor of people that look like me to foreign governments is fucked up, you're an unethical monster, and that if you continue to try {... See more