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OpenBrain scientist at “research taste” (deciding what to study next, what experiments to run, or having inklings of potential new paradigms).45

Eli Lifland • Ai 2027

‘Taste’ as a later horizon

The mainstream narrative around AI has changed from “maybe the hype will blow over” to “guess this is the next big thing,” but people disagree about how big. Bigger than social media? Bigger than smartphones? Bigger than fire?

Eli Lifland • Ai 2027

“Bigger than fire?”

"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

- edsger dijkstra

We're trying to do things the slow way, the way that sucks up time

Naomi Shefali Joshi • The Quality Makers: Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate (2024) | The Quality Edit

“the way that sucks up time”

In one of those interviews, this guy David says that the promise of things like technology and AI is to give us more time to do the things that we want to do. But the problem is, it hasn't ended up that way. What that promise has done, is killed is this idea of ceremony that we need so deeply. That's why people go to church, it's why people have fr... See more

Naomi Shefali Joshi • The Quality Makers: Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate (2024) | The Quality Edit

In a world where we are drunk on innovation, and we're always chasing the new thing, the fast thing, the algorithm and the AI of it all, we’ve forgotten the most incredible of things – the old things, the timeline of things, and the sacred ways of creating that are not innovative.

Naomi Shefali Joshi • The Quality Makers: Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate (2024) | The Quality Edit

From Ezra Klein:

AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that

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