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One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.comAI tends to just tell you what it thinks you want to hear. If you get a bunch of feedback on a draft and then you just reply to the feedback and say, “That feedback is wrong,” the AI will say, “You’re absolutely right. Here’s the opposite of that feedback.” You can’t trust it to give you a proper review because it can’t believe the things it’s... See more
Sari Azout • I Don't Care if a Robot Wrote It. If It's Good, It's Good.
Unfortunately something many individuals need to hear - you cannot review a piece of human art with a non-human tool.
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
If you are immune to boredom, if you can get drunk staring into the flames of a fire, or lost in reverie walking by yellow-lit windows, or experience a secret pleasure from staring into space, if you can be by yourself but not lonely, simply alone, then you’ve got it.
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Tommy Dixon, On ‘How to end your extremely online era’
it's weird that at a given age, 45 say, someone can't just write down the compressed/compiled topline notes on everything they've learned about life, and then just hand that to someone at 20, saving them 25 years of lessons. why that doesn't work is a somewhat instructive Q
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