Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
Britt Gage and
Humans In The Loop
as humans, we tend to do whatever it takes and to use any justification to keep busy, even if the task is meaningless. In the words of the scientists behind the study: “Our research suggests that many purported goals that people pursue may be merely justifications to keep themselves busy.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness
“Self-organization is not a startling new feature of the world. It is the way the world has created itself for billions of years. In all of human activity, self-organization is how we begin. It is what we do until we interfere with the process and try to control one another.”- Margaret J. Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers
How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
You see it don’t you.
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
- “artificial” intelligence
- “imitation” crab
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
Alex Dobrenko` • can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI
What I call temporal curiosity is the practice of actively directing our curiosity across time – past, present, future – to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Past curiosity. Directing our curiosity towards the past can help us understand our origins and learn from history. By exploring past experiences from... See more
Past curiosity. Directing our curiosity towards the past can help us understand our origins and learn from history. By exploring past experiences from... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Temporal Curiosity: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future
Getting curious is being human
First-principles thinking, or thinking from first principles, sounds a lot more complicated than it is. It’s simply a technique for approaching problems with a beginner’s mind. Instead of working within assumptions and what people around you “know” to be true, you do the hard work of figuring out what’s actually true and, thus, what’s truly... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
You walk down your high street. What do you prefer to see there? The economist will say: Walmart, Best Buy, the Gap. Scale economies — cheaper prices — better for “consumers”! But the human being will say: an independent cafe, a good bookshop, a boutique clothing store. Why? Because they offer many things that mega scale organizations don’t.