provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
The most valuable resource isn't algorithms, compute, or even just data. It's context.
Tina He • Context is all you need
People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
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The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
-Stewart Brand
these tools benefit the highly skilled more than the less skilled .
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
referring to AI
Dear @Apple, not a complaint, but an emoji curiosity: help me understand why 📈is red, and not green. And why 📉 is blue, and not red.
love observations like these. we assume people inside legit institutions are all competent, when the truth is everyone is just winging it and we can always make things better.
It is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.
As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
“i should build up the technical skills so that I can use them creatively” is very precisely backward