good questions

Latvia’s Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was created because he was somehow obsessed Blender, the free/open-source 3D modeling tool. It’s now consensus that it’s just a matter of time that an AI-made film could be a worthy contender in mainstream awards. Creative production pipelines are increasingly “node graph native.” ComfyUI’s... See more

Reid Hoffman and Tyler Cownen recently talked about how AI is good at answering questions but not at asking them—as The Diff noted on Saturday, that makes perfect sense given how the models are constructed: they're trying to predict the highest-probability next token, i.e. they're relentlessly searching for a local maximum. But good questions are a... See more

I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live... See more

Instead of asking: "Do you have any questions?", ask "What questions do you have?" The first almost always results in silence, while the second helps people feel comfortable asking questions.