human premium in an AI future
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In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more
In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in res... See more
Oliver Reichenstein • AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws
when physical labor became optional we invented the gym. we’ll need the same thing for the mind
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“Maybe this is another reason why print media is having a resurgence – the internet is becoming an increasingly unnavigable Takeshi’s castle-style obstacle course of terrible user experience and useless, nonsensical content,” says a writer and podcaster Georgia Graham in response to an essay about the AI-induced weirdness of the internet. “Finding
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