How to Survive AI
We have a chance to do work we’re proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that will lead them to tell the others. Traffic from an algorithm isn’t the point, it’s a random bonus.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you can’t be sure who is pulling the strings or why.
Seth Godin • You Can’t Beat the Algorithm
Capture inspiring information.
Our digital environments need to be inspiring as we spend the majority of our days in it.
Your second brain is one of the few spaces (digital or physical) that you truly control. So why not make it to your liking? https://t.co/tsC3DseDgz
Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more
André Chaperon
Let me answer your implicit complaint: “The Turing Test will be eventually passed.” That’s right (in some settings, Turing’s original prediction has been already achieved), but the truth is that any human relationship — even digital ones, even those not especially intimate like the ones between writers and readers (I love you, though) — requires mu... See more
How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
From a 1979 IBM presentation
instagram.comIf there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics.
Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.
The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.