🔦 food for thought
things that made me think and question my views about something
🔦 food for thought
That’s because first computer culture, then our broader culture, has been colonized by people for whom the only truth is the power of the computer. For them there is no mystery that can’t be solved with computers, eventually. There is nothing to say except that everything will someday be quantifiable and calculable, and that the best course of acti... See more
E.W. Niedermeyer • Why Is Writing Hard?
sensuality is actually not what we can see. It's always about feeling, whether it's music, whether it's touch. And to increase our sort of consumption of sex, sensuality, we often close our eyes. But pornography is purely visual. And that's why pornography is not at all sensuous. That actually really disrupts our thinking about sex.
On the Enduring Relevance of Marshall McLuhan
@dwarkesh_sp I think this comes down to a version of agency. An LLM doesn't sit around and "ponders" things.
Would Newton have made his discoveries if his only mode of interaction was reacting to questions from the people around him?
At present, we seem to be suffering from a widespread failure of literary imagination. We have become worse at imagining the experiences of other people, less inclined to credit these experiences as being as valid and real as our own. Why is this? In part, I think, because of the methods by, and pace at which, we acquire our stories. After all, eve... See more
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin Ashton
“Practice” made its way into our language by way of the Greek word praktikē , meaning “active,” and the Old French pratique , which actually means “experience.”
Process, on the other hand, originates in Latin as procedere and in French as proces , which mean something more akin to “a methodical series of steps.” Those steps lead toward something, as... See more
Process, on the other hand, originates in Latin as procedere and in French as proces , which mean something more akin to “a methodical series of steps.” Those steps lead toward something, as... See more
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
Practice vs. Process
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75 years aren’t going to be like that; we’re going to need to return to the basic human experience of relying on the people around you. We’re going to need... See more