metaphorical thinking
this is a way of thinking with analogies, metaphors, play, related to sensemaking
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metaphorical thinking
Language models can take a big chunk of text and smush it down like a foot crushing a can of Coke. Except it doesn’t come out crushed—it comes out as a perfectly packaged and proportional mini-Coke. And it’s even drinkable! This is a Willy Wonka-esque magic trick, without the Oompa Loompas.
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
a metaphor for this strategy
let me leave you with a metaphor to describe this way.
don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food.
go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things. and wait. trust that the right people will come.
when they do, be hospitable and kind to them. you will recognize them,... See more
let me leave you with a metaphor to describe this way.
don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food.
go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things. and wait. trust that the right people will come.
when they do, be hospitable and kind to them. you will recognize them,... See more