provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
sari and
provocations
“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more
andrea and
If prestige thinking is less essential than we claimed, and if machines can now produce a lot of its outputs cheaply, then what’s coming is not necessarily a tragedy for humanity. It may be a correction.
A correction of our class’s inflated self-regard.
A correction of an educational system that quietly treated one kind of cognition as the apex of... See more
A correction of our class’s inflated self-regard.
A correction of an educational system that quietly treated one kind of cognition as the apex of... See more
The Thinking Class
Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s no sound environmental reason to boycott Claude but not GPS. When people say “AI is a moral stain,” they really mean: I am scared that I won’t be able to pay my bills.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
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
Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.
“i should build up the technical skills so that I can use them creatively” is very precisely backward
River Dakinitwitter.com
Outflow determines inflow