provocations

provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on

I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.

pphoebe

via Sasha Chapin

“i should build up the technical skills so that I can use them creatively” is very precisely backward

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sari

ssari

Frank by Seth Brown

The Misalignment Museum

andrea

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.

aron

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. -David Graeber

alex and

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” ― Hubert Reeves

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alex

I wonder how many of the fears I hear about AI are really fears about ourselves as humans. How easy it is for people to replace others in the name of power and efficiency. To steal from others and call it innovation. To project love, belief and meaning onto the inanimate.

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aron