provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working
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The biggest mistake a consumer company can make, Arnault says, is to delegate advertising to the marketing department.
Suzy Wetlaufer • The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH
In my experience, inspiration is not something that finds you, or offers itself to you, nor for that matter is faith. Inspiration and faith are similar in so far as they both ask something of us. They each require real and constant practical application. For me, inspiration comes only when I practice certain things regularly and rigorously. I must... See more
Nick Cave • The Red Hand Files Issue #207
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell, “A childish letter” for Jewish World Review (1998)
People are intrigued by LLMs’ ability to generate new text, change styles, and generally chat. While impressive, turning text written in one style into text written in your own voice (or into legaleze) is essentially taking unstructured data and turning it into more unstructured data. I’m surprised about the lack of attention to doing the exact... See more
Matt Hartman • The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data
A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the majority of respondents would prefer to live in a world where TikTok and Instagram did not exist!
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
In ‘How Movies Were Edited 60 Years Ago,’ an editor manually cut film splicing, taping, and rewinding at a near biblical pace. Each move carried significance since fixing mistakes was time consuming.
Watching that, I envied the slow process. It’s the opposite of my current approach > revisions layered endlessly, endless undos, nothing ever... See more
Watching that, I envied the slow process. It’s the opposite of my current approach > revisions layered endlessly, endless undos, nothing ever... See more