Escaping the Algorithm (developing taste)
Honour your creativity
In many ways, I feel fortunate that we built Poolsuite, Vacation® and other projects before AI became as accessible as it is now. That time gave me a runway to hone the skill of being creative. But the other day, I found myself slipping into a terrible new habit, and turning to ChatGPT before I even gave my brain 30 seconds to... See more
In many ways, I feel fortunate that we built Poolsuite, Vacation® and other projects before AI became as accessible as it is now. That time gave me a runway to hone the skill of being creative. But the other day, I found myself slipping into a terrible new habit, and turning to ChatGPT before I even gave my brain 30 seconds to... See more
PALM REPORT
You cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death
Or adds to it, depending on frame
Re: TikTok
The pressure to have an opinion on every important topic has incentivized lazy thinking, the consequences of which we feel every day.
David Perell • How Philosophers Think
People don't have to be held accountable to their opinions anymore due to being rewarded by temporary fame of the algorithm, who serves no moral power. You can get your hot take off, even if you don't fully believe it, or haven't extrapolated the consequences of your conclusions, and reap the benefit of attention without having to be held accountable because the next tweet is on the way.
Also the pressure disincentivizes deep thinking, the time and effort it take to actually form an opinion worth sharing.
But there is much to learn from what we think we already know. Each time we revisit material, we discover new meaning in it. We are not the same person who first encountered it, so we see it from a new lens.
Salman @ Quick Brown Fox • 🦊 Repetition as Ritual
I experience this with music often, things that did not resonate before now do. Ex: SZA's ctrl...
Seinfeld: It’s very important to know what you don’t like. A big part of innovation is saying, “You know what I’m really sick of?”
hbr.org • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
I also never learned that there are smart people who aren’t “smart.” The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic.
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
I think one of the big questions of this decade
Is how do you become “post-algorithmic”
While remaining economically viable
Reggie Jamesx.com
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
Robin Hanson • Chase Your Reading
Affirmation for not feeling guilty on what doesn’t naturally fit our interests/taste