the human premium
by Keely Adler · updated 4mo ago
the human premium
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Vernacular architecture also tends to be more human-scale as a direct result of how it was built. Such places are therefore often more suited to social integration and to community, to healthier and happier lifestyles, and all the other benefits of human-scale design.
from Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38 by Creative Destruction
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Transactional conversation—speaking, and being spoken to, like a bot—can be efficient, maybe even nice, depending on the context and on your disposition. But it can also feel condescending, flattening, manipulative, and generic—like being treated as an N.P.C.
from The Age of Chat by Anna Wiener
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See morefrom Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You by Jenny Odell
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- As Dr. Nichola Raihani, British psychologist and Professor of Evolution and Behavior at University College London puts it, “The history of life on earth is a history of teamwork, of collective action, and of cooperation.” While traditional discussions of how humanity became the dominant form of life on Earth have focused on competition, the truth i... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- 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
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- As more and more of us sit with the question of what sits beyond intelligence as our true human premium, it seems that we’re doubling down on that ineffable quality that, as of yet, lies beyond the grasp of the machine: intuition.
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand stra... See morefrom Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- On another, we might peer into the machine itself. After all, as it stands today, one of AI’s greatest strengths is in highlighting its own weaknesses (and thereby, illuminating those qualities that we’re uniquely suited to as living, breathing thinkers and makers). We might consider our imagination a strength, or our capacity for recursive thought... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- What strikes us, though, is the seemingly reactionary nature of this human-made movement, when it could, instead, represent a pivotal moment of re-evaluation.
In a world of very capable technological tools, what sits at the center of our identity if not our production? What might happen if we untethered our value from our outputs as a matter of cour... See morefrom Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
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