Human Stuff
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
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Human Stuff
A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depends on finding each other.
In addition to showing LSD-godfather Timothy Leary the world wide web for the first time (Leary’s response: “Oh my god, this is acid”), coining terms like “viral media” and
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our lives will become more emotional
Who wants a birthday cake made with aspartame? Who would rather have a tanning bed than a sunny day? Who prefers to watch bots play chess? You can view high-res images of the Mona Lisa anytime you want, and yet people will still pay to fly to Paris and shove through crowds just to get a glimpse of the real thing.
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Text is king
people don’t want options. they want a leader.
people don’t want options. they want a leader.
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
I continue to find amazing things on Bear like this.
Bear’s Discovery Feed > Hacker News
“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met. It literally will validate everything I say.
Craig Weissx.comthe ability to go out on a limb and go against consensus will rise