Tech and Society
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Tech and Society
The easiest thing to get to conform is the technology.
The hardest thing to get to conform is your nervous system is the sun is the sky is your life, you know?
So Program or Be Programmed really means understand the technology well enough to use it in a way that's compatible with you and your creative cycle, rather than trying to conform your humanit
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It’s one thing to predict how technology changes, but quite another to predict how it changes us.
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If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
Create things that come alive
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"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
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An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.
I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:
First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more
I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:
First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more
Jack Raines • The Purpose of Things Isn't to Stop Doing Things.
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“the purpose of things isn’t to stop doing things”
“The computer screen bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences. It is so much our servant that it would seem childish to notice that it is also our master”
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The political scientist Henry Farrell has argued that we’ve had artificial intelligences before in the form of markets and states. A market is just a big information-processing, decision-making device. So, in a funny way, anytime I see that something costs $4.99 and I pay it, I’m giving up a kind of autonomy to the force of the market, right? I’m n... See more
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
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A mini AI futures manifesto from @deepfates