The Exquisite Corpse - A moodboard
Collaborators might be the most powerful forcing function for me. I could never tell someone: “Hey, I know what you think I made is great, and I know we said we were going to publish in an hour, but I suddenly realize a better way to do this and I need to redo everything. It’ll only take another 2-3 weeks/months.” Shared stakes prevents a kind of
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It’s hard to write long-form essays without serious, socially-enforced deadlines. The reason my writing group (with Garrett & Yehudis) worked in October, November was because we had shared stakes. We all knew we were publishing on the 1st. Since we were linking to each other, you really can’t miss the train.
As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
Working together can also be an extremely enriching and sobering experience. It is enriching because people learn, gain traction, motivation and a sense of meaning. It’s sobering because it provides a real-world test to the quality and strength of the coordination fabric your group has been building, stripping away the relative comfort of... See more